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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cambodia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

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