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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are struggling with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Jersey to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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