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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online education technology are empowering students all over the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

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