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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

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