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 is an exciting and promising new book related to massively open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OERs). Digital elearning technology has rapidly improved in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach students all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological impact of the information superhighway makes available forms of communication and interaction which are essential for digital education technology. There are scarcely any trends in elearning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC classes. It is no longer possible to cover MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOCs. Some massively open online courses are based on prerecorded video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are an answer to decades-long increases in the demand for training and blended learning. These online MOOC courses are absolutely a powerful change agent influencing distance learning technology today.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World reviews the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual corporate trainers academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 book talks about numerous notable trends in massive online courses (MOOC). This book also addresses open educational resources (OERs) and online education issues. This book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder. The first part of this book includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley. The second part of this book includes Chapter #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown. The third part of this book includes Chapter #8 by Maggie Hartnett, Mark Brown, Amy Wilson. The fourth part of this book includes Chapter #10 by Karen Swan, Scott Day, Leonard Bogle, and Traci van Prooyen. The fifth part of this book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #15 which is titled “Learning about MOOCs by Talking to Students”. This chapter was written by Chuck Severance. For more info about this book go to this education books for teachers website.
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