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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning technology make it possible for students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Mongolia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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