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As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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