MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge Published: July 1, 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 edifying and promising book related to massive open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources (OERs). Electronic educational technology has rapidly expanded in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach learners all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological impact of the World Wide Web makes available types of communication and interaction which are essential for education. 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. We can no longer cover these MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some MOOC classes are based on recorded video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are a supply-side effort to respond to decades-long increases in the demand for instruction and education. Massively open online courses are without question becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in e-learning.
MOOCs and Open Education deals with the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual trainers academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 book examines many noteworthy historical trends in massively open courses (MOOC). This exceptional new book also addresses open education and online education topics. This book includes Forward #2. The first part of 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. The third part of this book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #8. This book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and 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”. The fifth part of this book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #15 which is titled “Learning about MOOCs by Talking to Students”. For more info about this Routledge Chapman & Hall book go to this open education book website.
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