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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in digital education technology are empowering people all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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