MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
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 a scholarly and promising new book about massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OERs). Digital learning has swiftly improved in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach humans in nations all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the Internet allows kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital e-learning technology. There are scarcely any trends in technology-enhanced learning over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of massive open online courses. It is no longer possible to cover these MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOCs. Some MOOC courses are based on prerecorded video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are in response to dramatic increases in the demand for e-learning and online education. These MOOC courses are undoubtedly a powerful change agent influencing online learning technology today.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World describes the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual academics academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection researches quite a few extraordinary developments in massive online courses (MOOC). This educative new book also studies open education and online education issues. The front matter of this book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder which is titled “Open(ing up) Education for All...Boosted by MOOCs”. This book includes Chapter #3 by Kumiko Aoki. The second part of 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 is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #11 by Sanjaya Mishra, and Asha Kanwar. This book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #16 which is titled “The Collaborative Design and Development of MOOCs for Teacher Professional Development”. For more info about this Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection please see this book about massively open online courses website.
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