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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are typically free for learners 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 a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

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