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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in digital education technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not always 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 blended learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Cape Verde to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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