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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in online learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Tristan da Cunha to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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