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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are struggling with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

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