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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in online education technology enable people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

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