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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online education have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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