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As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants desire to understand these exciting new open education ventures. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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