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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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