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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in digital education technology enable learners in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. These MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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