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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in online education have enabled humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

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