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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education are empowering learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

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