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As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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