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The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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