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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in elearning technology are enabling students all over the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

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