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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology are empowering students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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