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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in learning technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Faroe Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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