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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Nicaragua to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

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