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 an authoritative and promising new book pertaining to massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources. Online learning has rapidly grown in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach learners all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological influence of the information superhighway allows potent kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital educational technology. There are not many trends in online learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of massively open online courses. It has become impossible to cover these massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massively open online courses are based on recorded video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are a supply-side answer to decades-long increases in the demand for tutoring and education. MOOCs are becoming a powerful catalyst for innovations in distance learning.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World analyzes the potential of education to provide access to new opportunities. This 2015 Routledge book addresses dozens of important advances in massive open online courses (MOOCs). This fine new book also analyzes education resources and online education topics. This book includes a preface. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley. The second part of this book includes Chapter #6 by Laura Czerniewicz, Glenda Cox, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Michelle Willmers. This book includes Chapter #9 by Jeff Haywood, Amy Woodgate, and David Dewhurst. The fourth part of this book includes Chapter #10 by Karen Swan, Scott Day, Leonard Bogle, and Traci van Prooyen which is titled “AMP: A Tool for Characterizing the Pedagogical Approaches of MOOCs”. This book 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. To learn more about this 2015 Routledge book go to this open education resource website.
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