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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Turkey to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

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