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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning make it possible for students all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

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