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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Kiribati to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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