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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

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