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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic educational technology have enabled learners all around the world to take online classes. These MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

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