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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in electronic education technology enable people all over the world to take part in online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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