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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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