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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled learners all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

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