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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

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