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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in blended learning have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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