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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in blended learning have enabled humans all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Solomon Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

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