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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education are providing the means for humans all around the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving 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 tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? How can stakeholders handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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