MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Published by 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 Around the World is a dramatic and promising new book pertaining to massive open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources (OER). E-learning has quickly progressed in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach participants in nations all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological influence of the World Wide Web provides practicable forms of communication and interaction which are essential for digital educational technology. There are not many trends in online education technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC courses. It is no longer possible to cover MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some massive open online courses are based on prerecorded video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side effort to respond to increases in the demand for teaching and learning and training. MOOC courses are unmistakably becoming a relevant catalyst for innovations in electronic educational technology. MOOCs and Open Education talks about the potential of digital education technology to provide access to new opportunities. This book considers a lot of critical changes in massively open online courses (MOOCs). This interesting book also deals with open education resources (OERs) and online education topics. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #2. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #6 by Laura Czerniewicz, Glenda Cox, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Michelle Willmers. For more information about this Routledge book go to this books about education website.
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