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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

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