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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Bhutan to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

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