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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in technology-enhanced learning have empowered humans all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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