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 impressive and promising edited collection having to do with massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources (OER). Online learning has quickly progressed in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach humans all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the Internet makes available practicable types of communication and interaction which are essential for digital learning technology. There are not too many trends in elearning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of massively open online courses. It is now impossible to cover MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some massively open online courses are based on prerecorded video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are a supply-side effort to meet increases in the demand for e-learning and e-learning. These massively open online courses are surely a significant change agent influencing distance learning technology today.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World talks about opportunities in electronic education technology online learning services, virtual learning activities and digital learning materials which are growing rapidly. This 2015 Routledge book talks about a lot of remarkable improvements in massively open online courses (MOOCs). This interesting new book also discusses open educational resources (OERs) and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head. The second part of this book includes Chapter #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown. This book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #9. The fourth part of this book includes Chapter #12 which is titled “MOOCs for Opening Up Education and the OpenupEd Initiative”. The fifth part of this book includes Chapter #14. This chapter was written by Paul Kim and Charlie Chung. For more information about this 2015 Routledge book please see this books about education website.
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