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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

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