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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning technology have made it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

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