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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning enable learners all around the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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