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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Wellesley College to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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