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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

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