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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in online learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Chad to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

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