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The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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