MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Published by Routledge Chapman & Hall (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 a definitive and promising new edited collection about massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). Online education has swiftly progressed in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach participants in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the World Wide Web allows practicable forms of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning. There are few trends in blended learning over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these massive open online courses. We can no longer cover these massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massive open online courses are based on prerecorded video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are a supply-side answer to global increases in the demand for edification and blended learning. These online MOOCs are noticeably a relevant change agent influencing blended learning today. MOOCs and Open Education deals with the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual academics academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 book reviews several big developments in massive open online courses. This significant new book also examines educational resources and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #2. The first part of this book includes Chapter #3. 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”. This book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #8 by Maggie Hartnett, Mark Brown, Amy Wilson which is titled “MOOCs Downunder: Insights from the Open2Study”. This book includes Chapter #11. For more details about this edited collection please visit this open education book website.
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