MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Published by Routledge Chapman & Hall.
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 cutting-edge and promising new book having to do with massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OER). Learning technology has rapidly advanced in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach students in nations all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the information superhighway provides potent types of communication and interaction which are essential for online learning. There are few trends in learning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOCs. It has become impossible to cover MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some MOOC courses are based on video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are a supply-side answer to increases in the demand for indoctrination and blended learning. MOOCs are plainly becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in elearning technology. MOOCs and Open Education describes the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual trainers academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge book researches many noteworthy historical trends in massively online courses (MOOC). This illuminating new book also deals with open education and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #3. The second part of this book includes Chapter #6 which is titled “Open Education at the University of Cape Town”. The third part of this book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #7 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 #11 by Sanjaya Mishra, and Asha Kanwar. For more info about this 2015 Routledge book see this education books for teachers website.
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