MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is a dramatic and promising edited collection pertaining to massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). Online education technology has rapidly advanced in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach humans all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological influence of the World Wide Web allows potent types of communication and interaction which are essential for digital elearning technology. There are not many trends in e-learning over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these massive open online courses. It is now impossible to cover these MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some MOOC courses are based on recorded video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are a supply-side effort to respond to dramatic increases in the demand for indoctrination and blended learning. MOOCs are a relevant change agent influencing distance learning technology today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World analyzes the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual lecturers academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge Chapman & Hall book considers dozens of notable evolvements in massively open online courses (MOOCs). This scholarly new book also discusses open education resources (OER) and online education topics. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens. The first part of this book includes Chapter #2. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #5 which is titled “Enabling Open Education: A Feasibility Protocol for Australian Higher Education”. This book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #9 by Jeff Haywood, Amy Woodgate, and David Dewhurst. This book includes Chapter #10 by Karen Swan, Scott Day, Leonard Bogle, and Traci van Prooyen. For more details about this Routledge book please visit this open learning website.
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