MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Published by 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 Around the World is a fine and promising new book relevant to massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). Distance learning technology has quickly improved in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach learners all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological influence of the World Wide Web offers practicable kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for e-learning. There are few trends in digital learning over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of MOOCs. It is no longer possible to cover massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some MOOCs are based on video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are a supply-side answer to dramatic increases in the demand for erudition and e-learning. MOOC classes are undeniably becoming a powerful catalyst for innovations in distance learning. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World studies the current state of blended learning and education resources in general. This Routledge Chapman & Hall book examines quite a few notable changes in massive open online courses (MOOCs). This significant new book also studies open education and online education issues. The front matter of this book includes a preface. This book includes Chapter #2 which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. 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. The third part of this book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #7 by Markus Deimann, Alexander Lipka, and Theo Bastiaens which is titled “Strange Bedfellows?!: What can MOOCs learn from Distance Education?”. 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. For more details about this book visit this open education resources book website.
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