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As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also deals with the major 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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