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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning are enabling humans in all parts of 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. These massive open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

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