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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently 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 online learning institutions must deal with today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is passable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Seychelles to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

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