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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education enable people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

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