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As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational ventures. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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