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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in learning technology make it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

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