MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 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 enlightening and promising book relevant to massive open online courses and open educational resources. Elearning has quickly expanded in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach participants in nations all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological impact of the World Wide Web allows powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital learning technology. There are not too many trends in digital learning over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC courses. It is now impossible to cover these MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massively open online courses are based on video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side response to decades-long increases in the demand for training and education. MOOCs are certainly becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in blended learning.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World deals with the depth and nature of changes which include openness, faculty professional development, quality assurance, student success, and corporate learning. This 2015 edited collection studies a lot of extraordinary advancements in MOOCs. This enlightening new book also studies open educational resources (OERs) and online education issues. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #2. This book includes Chapter #6 by Laura Czerniewicz, Glenda Cox, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Michelle Willmers which is titled “Open Education at the University of Cape Town”. The third part of this book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #8 by Maggie Hartnett, Mark Brown, Amy Wilson. 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 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 edited collection please see this elearning website.
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