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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Monaco to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

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MOOCS And Open Education