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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in e-learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Sierra Leone to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

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