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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in e-learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 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 stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cameroon to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

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