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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in elearning have empowered learners all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

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