MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 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 is an enlightening and promising new book having to do with massively open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources (OER). Online learning has rapidly evolved in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach learners all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological influence of the World Wide Web makes available forms of communication and interaction which are essential for blended learning technology. There are few trends in electronic educational technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOCs. It has become impossible to cover these MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some massively open online courses are based on prerecorded video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massive open online courses are in response to global increases in the demand for schooling and online education. Massively open online courses are incontestably a significant change agent influencing digital elearning technology today. MOOCs and Open Education studies the current state of elearning technology and open education resources (OERs) in general. This 2015 Routledge book analyzes dozens of extraordinary advancements in massively open online courses. This authoritative new book also analyzes educational resources and online education issues. 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 #2 which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. This book includes Chapter #6. The third part of this book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #9 by Jeff Haywood, Amy Woodgate, and David Dewhurst. 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. To find out more about this Routledge edited collection please see this best books about education website.
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