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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology enable learners all over the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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