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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in e-learning are making it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. 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 learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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