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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology have enabled learners all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

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