MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Published: July 1, 2015.
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 an impressive and promising edited collection having to do with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). Elearning technology has quickly expanded in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach students all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological impact of the information superhighway offers powerful forms of communication and interaction which are essential for digital elearning technology. There are not too many trends in online learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It has become impossible to cover these massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some MOOC classes are based on prerecorded video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massive open online courses are an effort to respond to increases in the demand for instruction and distance learning. MOOC courses are unmistakably becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in e-learning.
MOOCs and Open Education articulates opportunities in digital educational technology online learning services, virtual learning activities and digital learning materials which are growing rapidly. This 2015 Routledge book deals with numerous significant improvements in massively open online courses. This fascinating new book also deals with open education resources and online education issues. This book includes Forward #1 which is titled “The Role of MOOCs in the Future of Education”. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #1 which is titled “The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure”. This book includes Chapter #4 by Gerard L. Hanley which is titled “MOOCs, MERLOT, and Open Educational Services”. The third part of this book includes Chapter #7 by Markus Deimann, Alexander Lipka, and Theo Bastiaens. This book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #12 by Fred Mulder and Darco Jansen which is titled “MOOCs for Opening Up Education and the OpenupEd Initiative”. 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 learn more about this book please visit this open educational resources website.
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