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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in electronic education technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

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