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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online education are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

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