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 Around the World is a fine and promising new book related to massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources (OER). Digital education technology has quickly developed in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach students in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the information superhighway provides practicable types of communication and interaction which are essential for digital education technology. There are scarcely any trends in distance learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It is no longer possible to cover these MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some MOOCs are based on video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are an effort to meet recent increases in the demand for edification and elearning. These massive open online courses are plainly a significant change agent influencing elearning today. MOOCs and Open Education discusses the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual academics academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 edited collection talks about a lot of notable advancements in massively open courses (MOOC). This significant new book also analyzes open education resources 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”. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley. The second part of this book 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. This book includes Chapter #12. To learn more about this 2015 book please see this open educational books website.
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