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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology make it possible for students all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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