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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in elearning are enabling learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Peninsula College to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

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