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 edifying and promising edited collection relating to massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OER). Online learning technology has swiftly grown in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach participants in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological influence of the information superhighway makes available kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning. There are not too many trends in electronic education technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of massively open online courses. It is now impossible to cover these MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massive open online courses are based on prerecorded video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are a supply-side response to dramatic increases in the demand for indoctrination and training. MOOC classes are clearly becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in blended learning technology. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World reviews the potential of learning technology to provide access to new opportunities. This 2015 Routledge edited collection researches several developments in massively open courses (MOOC). This breathtaking new book also talks about open education resources and online education subjects. The front matter of 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 by Kumiko Aoki. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #4. This book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #8 by Maggie Hartnett, Mark Brown, Amy Wilson which is titled “MOOCs Downunder: Insights from the Open2Study”. The fourth part of this book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #10 which is titled “AMP: A Tool for Characterizing the Pedagogical Approaches of MOOCs”. For more information about this 2015 edited collection go to this open education books website.
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