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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Panama to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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