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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning are enabling students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are struggling with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like New Zealand to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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