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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in distance learning technology enable humans all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

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