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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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