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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Northern Cyprus to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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