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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

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