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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 learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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