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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online education are providing the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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