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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in online education technology enable humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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