MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
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 informative and promising book relating to massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OER). E-learning has quickly progressed in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach people in every nation on earth since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the World Wide Web allows types of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning. There are few trends in e-learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOCs. It is now impossible to cover massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOCs. Some MOOC classes are based on prerecorded video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side effort to meet increases in the demand for training and digital learning. These massively open online courses are undoubtedly a significant change agent influencing elearning today. MOOCs and Open Education deals with the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual professors academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 Routledge book explores a lot of significant evolvements in massively open online courses (MOOC). This significant new book also analyzes open education resources and online education subjects. This book includes a preface. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley. The second part of this book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #6 which is titled “Open Education at the University of Cape Town”. This book includes Chapter #8 by Maggie Hartnett, Mark Brown, Amy Wilson. This book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #12 which is titled “MOOCs for Opening Up Education and the OpenupEd Initiative”. To find out more about this Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection please see this open education website.
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