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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education are enabling people all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Peru to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

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