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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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