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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 procurable there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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