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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advancements in online education technology have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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