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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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