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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

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