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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like China, People's Republic of to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

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