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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

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