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As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education initiatives. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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