MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (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 edifying and promising edited collection related to massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). Learning technology has swiftly grown in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach humans all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological impact of the Internet allows powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital education technology. There are not many trends in electronic education technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. We can no longer cover MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massive open online courses are based on recorded video group discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massive open online courses are a response to decades-long increases in the demand for elearning and e-learning. These MOOC courses are unquestionably a powerful change agent influencing education today.
MOOCs and Open Education investigates the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual educators academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 book analyzes a lot of significant evolvements in massive open online courses. This authoritative new book also addresses open education and online education subjects. The front matter of this book includes Forward #1 which is titled “The Role of MOOCs in the Future of Education”. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #1. The second part of this book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #6 by Laura Czerniewicz, Glenda Cox, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Michelle Willmers which is titled “Open Education at the University of Cape Town”. This book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #8 by Maggie Hartnett, Mark Brown, Amy Wilson. The fourth part of this book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #11. This book includes Chapter #15 which is titled “Learning about MOOCs by Talking to Students”. For more information about this book please visit this books about open education website.
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