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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? How can educators handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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