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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in online learning have empowered students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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