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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tuvalu to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

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