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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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