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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning have enabled students in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Fiji to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

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