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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in online education are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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