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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

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