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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in electronic educational technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Slovakia to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

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