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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in elearning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Tristan da Cunha to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

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