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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in online learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cocos (Keeling) Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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