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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Jordan to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

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