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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with today because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Baker Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

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