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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Colombia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

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