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The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better comprehend these new open educational ventures. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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