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As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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