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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education technology have empowered students all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

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