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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning technology are empowering students all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like The New School to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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