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As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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