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

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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. Educational institutions, governments, and corporate organizations want to learn more about these new technological innovations. How can MOOCs and OERs 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. In response to this increasing demand for knowledge, MOOCs and Open Education Around the World explains various implementations open education, distance learning and MOOCs. This open education book also describes some of the hazards and learning advancements that are possible with these new kinds of distance learning. There are many questions being asked about the interaction possibilities, assessment schemes, and delivery formats. What are the different business plans of companies and other entities offering MOOCs today including edX, MITx, Coursera, Udemy, and Udacity? What are the major obstacles and problems that need to be dealt with? This collection of MOOC articles and open education articles discusses useful research findings, practical teaching suggestions and distance learning recommendations. For more information please follow this link: Books about Open Education.

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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, and Inside Higher Education: Open education is opening up! So can you!
Open education and alternative learning routes: Latest news in learning technology and open education.
massive open online courses (MOOCs): TEC-VARIETY helps instructors motivate online learners and increase learner retention.
Interactive online classes and MOOCs: Online courses from MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, UTx and many other universities can be taken here.
Educational institutions, businesses and teachers:Mooc.org is a new site for universities, institutions, businesses, governments and teachers to build and host their courses for a global audience.
The New Generation of Massive Open Online Course (MOOCS): This study examines the rapid shift and evolution in online education by Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).
MOOCs Stir Up Controversy: Experts are divided on whether massive open online courses will improve or destroy higher education.
Promoting Open Education to Help Teachers and Students Around the World: Open education is being used to help teachers and students around the world.
Open Education Around the World: Education Portal has recently launched an interview series with OpenCourseWare (OCW) providers around the world.

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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.
OpenupEd is one of the largest MOOC providers for higher education.: OpenupEd is an open, non-profit partnership offering MOOCs that contribute to open up 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 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.
Curt Bonk's videos and MOOCs Books: What are MOOCs? The Design and Delivery of Flexible, Open, Online, and Massive Courses.
Open education across regions and nations: Books about Open Education and MOOCs.
Open education articles: Articles about MOOCs and Open education articles.
Open Education articles and best practices: Stepping Into Life Change: A New Measure of the Impact of MOOCs and Open Education.
Experiment in Open Educational Resources: In education, we are now seeing open source software, open access journals, and open educational resources.