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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

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