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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

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