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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions are struggling with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Oman to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

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