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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning have empowered humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

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