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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education are enabling people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are considering today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

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