MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge Chapman & Hall. Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is a cutting-edge and promising book about massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources (OERs). Blended learning has quickly improved in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach people all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the information superhighway makes available potent types of communication and interaction which are essential for learning technology. There are few trends in learning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of massive open online courses. It is now impossible to cover massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOCs. Some massive open online courses are based on recorded video group discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are a supply-side response to global increases in the demand for teaching and digital learning. Massive open online courses are obviously becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in online learning.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World deals with opportunities in online education technology online learning services, virtual learning activities and digital learning materials which are growing rapidly. This Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection examines quite a few noteworthy changes in massively open online courses (MOOC). This interesting new book also deals with educational resources and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #2. This book includes Chapter #6 by Laura Czerniewicz, Glenda Cox, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Michelle Willmers. This book includes Chapter #8 by Maggie Hartnett, Mark Brown, Amy Wilson which is titled “MOOCs Downunder: Insights from the Open2Study”. This book includes Chapter #12 by Fred Mulder and Darco Jansen which is titled “MOOCs for Opening Up Education and the OpenupEd Initiative”. The fifth part of this book includes Chapter #17 which is titled “Feminist Alternatives to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): The Inception of the Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC)”. For more info about this Routledge edited collection see this books about open education website.
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