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 a breathtaking and promising new edited collection relevant to massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources (OER). Electronic educational technology has swiftly developed in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach students in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological influence of the information superhighway makes possible powerful forms of communication and interaction which are essential for electronic education technology. There are hardly any trends in distance learning over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC classes. It has become impossible to cover massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some massively open online courses are based on prerecorded video conversations plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are a supply-side effort to respond to increases in the demand for edification and training. These massively open online courses are decidedly a significant change agent influencing digital elearning technology today.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World reviews the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual academics academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 edited collection researches numerous important evolvements in massive online courses (MOOC). This definitive new book also deals with open education resources (OERs) and online education topics. This book includes a preface. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley which is titled “The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure”. This book includes Chapter #4. This book includes Chapter #9 by Jeff Haywood, Amy Woodgate, and David Dewhurst. The fourth part of this book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #12 which is titled “MOOCs for Opening Up Education and the OpenupEd Initiative”. The fifth part of this book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #15. This chapter was written by Chuck Severance. For more information about this Routledge book go to this open educational books website.
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