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As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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