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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

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