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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in digital education technology have enabled students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Tokelau to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

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