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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning are empowering people all around the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Qatar to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

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