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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in digital education technology have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

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