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The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better understand these new open educational initiatives. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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