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 an impressive and promising new edited collection relevant to massive open online courses and open educational resources. 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 online MOOCs are surely a significant change agent influencing distance learning technology today.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World talks about the current state of electronic education technology and open educational resources (OERs) in general. This 2015 Routledge edited collection deals with quite a few significant advances in massive open online courses. This impressive book also discusses open educational resources (OERs) and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #1 which is titled “The Role of MOOCs in the Future of Education”. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #1 which is titled “The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure”. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and 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. This book includes Chapter #12 by Fred Mulder and Darco Jansen. This book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #17. For more information about this 2015 Routledge book please see this books about education website.
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