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As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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