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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several issues that elearning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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