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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions are having to consider today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Congo, (Congo  – Kinshasa) to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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