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As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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