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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology are empowering students all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

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