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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education have provided the means for people all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

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