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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning are providing the means for learners all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

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