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 informative and promising new edited collection pertaining to massive open online courses and open educational resources. Blended learning has rapidly expanded in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach students in every nation on earth since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the Internet makes possible powerful types of communication and interaction which are essential for e-learning technology. There are few trends in digital learning over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC courses. It has become impossible to cover these massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOCs. Some MOOCs are based on prerecorded video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side answer to decades-long increases in the demand for edification and e-learning. These massive open courses are unquestionably becoming a significant catalyst for innovations in electronic educational technology.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World researches the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual higher education instructors academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection studies dozens of extraordinary developments in MOOC classes. This interesting new book also addresses educational resources and online education subjects. The front matter of this book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #3 by Kumiko Aoki 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”. The third part of this book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #7 by Markus Deimann, Alexander Lipka, and Theo Bastiaens which is titled “Strange Bedfellows?!: What can MOOCs learn from Distance Education?”. The fourth part of this book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #11 by Sanjaya Mishra, and Asha Kanwar which is titled “Quality Assurance for Open Educational Resources: What’s the Difference?”. This book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #16 which is titled “The Collaborative Design and Development of MOOCs for Teacher Professional Development”. This chapter was written by Bernard Robin and Sara McNeil. For more details about this Routledge book visit this books about open education website.
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