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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in online education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

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