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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in e-learning are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Yemen to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

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