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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in elearning are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions must deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle low motivation and high attrition?

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