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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic education technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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