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 is an illuminating and promising book about massively open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OER). E-learning has rapidly grown in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach participants in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the information superhighway offers powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital learning technology. There are few trends in elearning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of MOOCs. It has become impossible to cover these massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some MOOC courses are based on recorded video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are an effort to respond to global increases in the demand for teaching and e-learning. These massive open online courses are a significant change agent influencing e-learning today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World discusses the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual higher education instructors academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge book examines numerous important advances in massive online courses (MOOC). This new book also explores open education resources (OER) 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. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown which is titled “Enabling Open Education: A Feasibility Protocol for Australian Higher Education”. This book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #9 by Jeff Haywood, Amy Woodgate, and David Dewhurst which is titled “Reflections of an Early MOOC Provider: Achievements and Future Directions”. This book includes Chapter #11 by Sanjaya Mishra, and Asha Kanwar. For more info about this edited collection see this educational research website.
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