MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is a fascinating and promising new edited collection relating to massively open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OERs). Digital learning technology has quickly expanded in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach humans all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the Internet allows powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for learning technology. There are not many trends in learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOCs. It is no longer possible to cover these massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some massively open online courses are based on recorded video group discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are an effort to meet global increases in the demand for e-learning and training. These massive open courses are noticeably a significant change agent influencing learning technology today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World researches the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual higher education instructors academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 Routledge book describes several important gains in massive open online courses (MOOCs). This appealing new book also deals with open educational resources and online education subjects. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds which is titled “Actions Leading to MOOCs and Open Education Around the World”. The first part of this book includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley. 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 which is titled “Open Education at the University of Cape Town”. 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?”. The fourth part of 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. To learn more about this 2015 Routledge edited collection please visit this open educational books website.
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