What are MOOCs? Amazon Routledge Open World
MOOCs Book
Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, & Thomas H. Reynolds (2015). MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.

Learn more about MOOCs and Open Education Around the World

As massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other forms of open educational resources (OERs) proliferate, there is an increasing need to better understand how these new forms of digital learning are being implemented in different regions of the world. Teachers, students, governments and many other organizations want to understand these new forms of learning. How can MOOCs be improved? Recent changes in distance education have forced organizations to deal with concerns which include learner motivation, innovative assessment, quality standards, credentialing, accreditation, student attrition, and many other issues. To satisfy this increasing demand for understanding, MOOCs and Open Education Around the World describes how to conduct a MOOC and other implementations of open education courses. This MOOC book also discusses the potential hazards and educational improvements that are made possible by these new forms of online education. Many issues are being raised about assessment schemes, interaction possibilities, and optimal delivery formats. What are the different business models of companies which are offering MOOCs today like edX, MITx, Coursera, Udemy, and Udacity? What are the important issues that need to be resolved? This book explains the current and future state of open education trends and issues related to MOOCs. This distance-learning book shares new research findings and provides practical suggestions. For more information please follow this link: Open Educational Resources.

Find out more about MOOCs and Open Education Around the World

MOOCs and Open Education Articles and Books

Book about Open Education

Open educational world: Provides approaches that help the reader navigate the open educational world and allow learners to surf the coming wave of change.
Open education articles: Articles about MOOCs and Open education articles.
Articles about Open Education: Best Open Education Books Hosted by Routledge.
Open Education Week: Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement.
Open Education MOOC Book: Open Education Books.
MOOCs Directory: 2015: New Book on MOOCs
Fad or Future: The Advantages and Challenges of Massive Open Online Courses: Distance learning has expanded to include a growing number of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), free higher education courses which are usually open for enrollment for any Internet user.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): A Primer for University and College Board Members: The collaboration of such name-brand institutions has sparked increasingly greater interest among higher education leaders and the public in such massive open online courses or MOOCs, as they are called, and in online education in general.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World -- sponpress: Routledge is pleased to offer the preface to MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
Open Education Around the World: Education Portal has recently launched an interview series with OpenCourseWare (OCW) providers around the world.

MOOC Courses

MOOCs and Open Education: Implications for Higher Education: The phenomena of MOOCs are placed in the context of open education, online learning and changes that are currently taking place in higher education.
Ten useful reports on MOOCs and online education: MOOCs, Open Educational Resources and online education.
The College Open Textbooks Collaborative: Training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks.
What are MOOCs?: MOOCs are personalized online courses that allow thousands of students to participate.
Open education book: MOOCs and Open Education Media and Public Relations links.
MOOCs books blog post by Curt Bonk: Twenty Thoughts on the Types, Targets, and Intents of MOOCs.
MOOCs and Open Education around the World: Recapping the Past Year, Mapping the Road Ahead: This panel is a follow-up to the full day preconference symposium on MOOCs and Open Education around the World from E-learn 2013.
Educators, Embrace MOOCs Or Perish | Spin Education: 79 percent of respondents note that MOOCs are worth the hype.
Open educational world: Provides approaches that help the reader navigate the open educational world and allow learners to surf the coming wave of change.
MOOCs and Open Education Book on Taylor & Francis Group: Categories: Open & Distance Education and eLearning, Technology in Education, Teaching & Learning.
Articles about Open Education: Best Open Education Books Hosted by Routledge.
massive open online courses (MOOCs): TEC-VARIETY helps instructors motivate online learners and increase learner retention.