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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in electronic educational technology are empowering students in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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