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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Elidaemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

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