MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a fascinating and promising new book relevant to massive open online courses and open educational resources. Learning technology has quickly progressed in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach participants all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the World Wide Web makes possible powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for e-learning. There are few trends in digital educational technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of MOOCs. It is now impossible to cover these MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some MOOCs are based on prerecorded video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are a supply-side effort to respond to decades-long increases in the demand for erudition and learning. These online MOOC courses are surely becoming a significant catalyst for innovations in digital learning.
MOOCs and Open Education considers the potential of digital learning technology to provide access to new opportunities. This 2015 book deals with a lot of extraordinary improvements in massively online courses (MOOC). This new book also discusses open educational resources (OER) and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens. The first part of this book includes Chapter #3 which is titled “MOOCs and Open Education in Japan: A Case of the Open University of Japan”. The second part of this book includes Chapter #4 by Gerard L. Hanley which is titled “MOOCs, MERLOT, and Open Educational Services”. This book includes Chapter #9 by Jeff Haywood, Amy Woodgate, and David Dewhurst which is titled “Reflections of an Early MOOC Provider: Achievements and Future Directions”. The fourth part of this book includes Chapter #12 by Fred Mulder and Darco Jansen which is titled “MOOCs for Opening Up Education and the OpenupEd Initiative”. The fifth part of this book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #17. This chapter was written by Erika M Behrmann, Radhika Gajjala, Elizabeth Losh, T.L. Cowan, Penelope Boyer, Jasmine Rault, Laura Wexler and CL Cole. For more info about this Routledge edited collection see this open education resource website.
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