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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Tumblr to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

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