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The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these promising new open education ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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