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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in electronic education technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

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