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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. Everyone wants to better understand these new digital initiatives. How can online learning techniques be improved? Recent changes in online learning have forced institutions to invent new protocols to handle assessment, accreditation, quality standards, credentialing, motivating MOOC students and many other important issues. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World responds to this increasing demand by documenting implementations of MOOCs and other open educational resources. This MOOC book also discusses the potential hazards and educational improvements that are made possible by these new forms of online education. 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 Online Teaching.

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massive open online courses (MOOCs): TEC-VARIETY helps instructors motivate online learners and increase learner retention.
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.
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.
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MOOCs and Open Education Book: MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections
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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.
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