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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in elearning have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

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