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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

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