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As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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