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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kirkwood Community College to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

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