MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 pages.
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 fascinating and promising new book about massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources. Learning technology has quickly progressed in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach participants all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the World Wide Web makes possible powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for e-learning. There are few trends in digital educational technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of MOOCs. It is now impossible to cover these MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some MOOCs are based on prerecorded video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are a supply-side effort to respond to decades-long increases in the demand for erudition and learning. These MOOC courses are surely becoming a significant catalyst for innovations in digital learning.
MOOCs and Open Education considers the current state of digital learning technology and educational resources in general. This 2015 Routledge book considers a lot of extraordinary improvements in massively online courses (MOOC). This new book also discusses open educational resources (OER) 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. The first part of this book includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #4 by Gerard L. Hanley. This book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #9 by Jeff Haywood, Amy Woodgate, and David Dewhurst. This book includes Chapter #11 by Sanjaya Mishra, and Asha Kanwar which is titled “Quality Assurance for Open Educational Resources: What’s the Difference?”. This book includes Chapter #15. For more info about this Routledge edited collection see this open education resource website.
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