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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online education enable people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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