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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like The New School to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

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