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 is an authoritative and promising new book related to massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources. Education has quickly progressed in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach people all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological impact of the Internet offers powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for elearning. There are not too many trends in digital elearning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these massively 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 MOOCs. Some massive open online courses are based on prerecorded video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are a supply-side effort to meet increases in the demand for erudition and e-learning. These massive open courses are decidedly a relevant change agent influencing digital learning today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World investigates the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual teachers academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 Routledge edited collection considers quite a few notable evolvements in MOOC courses. This fine new book also addresses open education and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #1 which is titled “The Role of MOOCs in the Future of Education”. 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”. The second part of this book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #4 which is titled “MOOCs, MERLOT, and Open Educational Services”. The third part of this book includes Chapter #7. This book includes Chapter #12 by Fred Mulder and Darco Jansen which is titled “MOOCs for Opening Up Education and the OpenupEd Initiative”. For more info about this Routledge edited collection please go to this book about massively open online courses website.
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