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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in e-learning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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