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The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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