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The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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