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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning are empowering learners in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

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