MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is an enlightening and promising new edited collection related to massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources. E-learning technology has rapidly expanded in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach participants all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological impact of the information superhighway allows kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital educational technology. There are not too many trends in distance learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of massively open online courses. We can no longer cover MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some MOOCs are based on recorded video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are an effort to meet global increases in the demand for training and online learning. Massively open online courses are obviously a relevant change agent influencing distance learning today.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World studies the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual educational scholars academics, universities, and societies. This edited collection analyzes quite a few extraordinary gains in MOOC courses. This fascinating book also analyzes open educational resources (OER) and online education topics. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens which is titled “The Role of MOOCs in the Future of Education”. 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 #5. The third part of this book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #8 by Maggie Hartnett, Mark Brown, Amy Wilson which is titled “MOOCs Downunder: Insights from the Open2Study”. This book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #10 which is titled “AMP: A Tool for Characterizing the Pedagogical Approaches of MOOCs”. The fifth part of this book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #13 which is titled “Unbundling Higher Education and the Georgia Tech Online M.S. in Computer Science: A Chronicle”. This chapter was written by Richard DeMillo. For more info about this Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection see this book about open education website.
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