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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in distance learning are enabling learners all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

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