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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in digital education technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

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