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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in electronic education technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

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