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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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