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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern developments in elearning have enabled people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Congo, (Congo  – Kinshasa) to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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