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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

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