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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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