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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in e-learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

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