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As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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