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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in blended learning technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students 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 issues that elearning technology organizations are considering now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. 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 educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like UCSF to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

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