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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions are considering today because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

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