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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology are enabling students all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Christmas Island to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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