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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in elearning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

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