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As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend these promising new open educational ventures. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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