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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology enable people all around the world to participate in courses online. 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. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high attrition?

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