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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Congo, (Congo  – Brazzaville) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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