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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently 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 numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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