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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning enable learners all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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