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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in distance learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like French Southern and Antarctic Lands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

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