MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
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 significant and promising new book relevant to massively open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources (OER). Electronic education technology has rapidly advanced in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach participants all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological influence of the World Wide Web allows powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for electronic education technology. There are not many trends in electronic education technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC classes. It is no longer possible to cover these MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some massive open online courses are based on video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are an effort to meet dramatic increases in the demand for elearning and training. Massively open online courses are absolutely becoming a significant catalyst for innovations in learning technology.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World investigates the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual professors academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge book talks about quite a few big improvements in massive open online courses. This fascinating book also explores education resources and online education subjects. The front matter of this book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds. This book includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head. This book includes Chapter #4 by Gerard L. Hanley. The third part of this book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #8 by Maggie Hartnett, Mark Brown, Amy Wilson which is titled “MOOCs Downunder: Insights from the Open2Study”. The fourth part of this book includes Chapter #11. This book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #16. This chapter was written by Bernard Robin and Sara McNeil. To find out more about this 2015 Routledge edited collection go to this open education resource website.
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