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 Around the World is an impressive and promising book relevant to massively open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OERs). E-learning has rapidly improved in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach students in nations all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the information superhighway makes available types of communication and interaction which are essential for digital e-learning technology. There are hardly any trends in digital e-learning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these massive open online courses. It is no longer possible to cover these massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some massive open online courses are based on video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are an answer to decades-long increases in the demand for training and digital learning. MOOCs are undeniably a relevant change agent influencing elearning technology today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World articulates the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual professors academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge book explores dozens of far-reaching developments in massively online courses (MOOC). This authoritative new book also researches open education resources (OER) and online education subjects. The front matter of this book includes Forward #2. The first part of this book includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. 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 includes Chapter #8. This book includes Chapter #12 by Fred Mulder and Darco Jansen. To find out more about this Routledge book see this books about education reform website.
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