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As online education becomes more available there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines 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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