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As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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