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As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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