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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

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