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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Austria to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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