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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning enable students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

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