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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning technology enable humans all around the world to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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