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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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MOOCs are a fairly recent development. MOOC simply denotes a Massive Open Online Course, but in the larger context, MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs) may serve as a catalyst to improve higher education. There is therefore an increasing need to document and understand how people around the world are conducting these new forms of digital learning. Everyone wants to better understand these new digital initiatives. How can online learning techniques 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. 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 book about massive open online courses also documents the problems and advantages that are now taking place in the field of distance teaching and blended learning. 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 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: Book about Online Teaching.

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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 Book on The Book Depository.: Curtis J. Bonk is an internationally recognized leader in open and distance learning. He is the author of several books.
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.
Free access to the world's best education: Partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses for anyone to take.
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 Year of the MOOC: Translating videotaped lectures into MOOCs, or massive open online courses.
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.
Open Education Around the World: Open Education in all sectors of Education and Training.
The Open Education Consortium: Open Education seeks to scale educational opportunities by taking advantage of the power of the internet.

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Task Force OER, MOOCs and Open Education: Institutional development and collaboration on 'European style' MOOCs.
Open Education: Free online open education. It puts into context not just the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) but also TED Talks.
MOOCs and Open Education: Implications for Higher Education: A better understanding of the phenomenon of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs).
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Adding Some TEC-VARIETY MOOCs Book: The emergence of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has made the present situation even more precarious and a remedy more urgent.
Educators, Embrace MOOCs Or Perish | Spin Education: 79 percent of respondents note that MOOCs are worth the hype.
This book explains MOOCs and open education trends: The goal of PublicationShare is to provide interesting and relevant articles in online learning.
Open Education, and Inside Higher Education: Open education is opening up! So can you!
Open Education articles and best practices: Stepping Into Life Change: A New Measure of the Impact of MOOCs and Open Education.
massive open online courses (MOOCs): TEC-VARIETY helps instructors motivate online learners and increase learner retention.