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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in electronic educational technology are empowering people all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

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