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As online education becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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