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As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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