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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning have enabled people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

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