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The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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