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As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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