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The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Teachers want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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