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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online education are enabling students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

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