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 an enlightening and promising edited collection related to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources (OERs). Digital education technology has swiftly improved in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach students all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological influence of the World Wide Web makes available powerful forms of communication and interaction which are essential for online education technology. There are hardly any trends in blended learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC courses. We can no longer cover these massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some MOOC courses are based on video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massive open online courses are an effort to respond to recent increases in the demand for teaching and learning and elearning. These online MOOCs are certainly becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in digital learning. MOOCs and Open Education studies the current state of distance learning technology and open education resources (OER) in general. This Routledge Chapman & Hall book examines quite a few major trends in MOOCs. This definitive new book also explores educational resources and online education subjects. This book includes a preface which is titled “Actions Leading to MOOCs and Open Education Around the World”. This book includes Chapter #3 by Kumiko Aoki which is titled “MOOCs and Open Education in Japan: A Case of the Open University of Japan”. The second part of this book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #4 by Gerard L. Hanley which is titled “MOOCs, MERLOT, and Open Educational Services”. This book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #7 by Markus Deimann, Alexander Lipka, and Theo Bastiaens which is titled “Strange Bedfellows?!: What can MOOCs learn from Distance Education?”. This book includes Chapter #12 by Fred Mulder and Darco Jansen. To find out more about this Routledge book please go to this distance learning book website.
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