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 appealing and promising new book related to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources (OERs). distance learning has rapidly advanced in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach people in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the information superhighway provides types of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning technology. There are few trends in digital education technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC classes. It is no longer possible to cover these massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOCs. Some massive open online courses are based on video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are an effort to respond to recent increases in the demand for tutoring and digital learning. MOOCs are unmistakably a significant change agent influencing e-learning today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World considers the potential of digital learning to provide access to new opportunities. This 2015 edited collection describes dozens of crucial evolvements in massive open online courses. This impressive book also reviews education resources and online education topics. This book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder. This book includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley which is titled “The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure”. The second part of this book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown. This book includes Chapter #8 which is titled “MOOCs Downunder: Insights from the Open2Study”. The fourth part of this book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #12 by Fred Mulder and Darco Jansen. To learn more about this 2015 Routledge book please visit this books about education reform website.
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