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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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