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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in online learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

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