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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online education technology are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Reddit to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

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