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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in online learning technology have empowered humans in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this need for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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