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As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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