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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in learning technology are empowering students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to deal with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Palau to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

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