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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology enable learners in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

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