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The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these significant new open education initiatives. Academics want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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