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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. Teachers, students, governments and many other organizations want to understand these new forms of learning. How can MOOCs be improved? Current e-learning changes have caused institutions and organizations to address topics like quality standards, attrition, learner motivation, credentialing, accreditation, and assessment of MOOCs and open education. 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. Amongst the many issues which need to be addressed are student-teacher interaction, various assessment strategies, and content delivery platforms. What are the different business plans of governments and other institutions which offer MOOCs today? What are the important issues that need to be resolved? 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: Free MOOCs Book.

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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.
Cultural Translation in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) : Practices that enable such contextualisation, or cultural translation, are investigated in five Coursera Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
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.
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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.
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MOOCs and Open Education: Implications for Higher Education: A better understanding of the phenomenon of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs).
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