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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in digital education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritius to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

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