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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in blended learning have enabled students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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