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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations have to consider today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Montserrat to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

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