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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that elearning institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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