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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning technology have empowered humans all over the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Sri Lanka to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

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