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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in blended learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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