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As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these important new open education endeavours. Educators want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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