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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online education technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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