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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in distance learning technology enable humans all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students 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 quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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