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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are considering in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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