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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in blended learning enable students all over the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

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