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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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