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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in learning technology are empowering humans in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. These online MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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