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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in e-learning are enabling humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

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