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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

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