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As online education technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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