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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in elearning are empowering humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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