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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in blended learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online courses. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like State University of New York to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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