MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Published by Routledge Chapman & Hall (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 enlightening and promising book relevant to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources (OERs). Online learning has rapidly expanded in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach humans all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the Internet allows forms of communication and interaction which are essential for online learning technology. There are not many trends in online education over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It is no longer possible to cover these massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some MOOC classes are based on video group discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are an effort to meet increases in the demand for schooling and distance learning. Massive open online courses are incontestably a relevant change agent influencing elearning technology today. MOOCs and Open Education describes the potential of elearning technology to provide access to new opportunities. This Routledge book articulates a lot of significant historical trends in massively open online courses (MOOCs). This impressive new book also talks about open educational resources (OER) and online education subjects. The front matter of this book includes Forward #1. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #2. The second part of this book includes Chapter #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown. To find out more about this Routledge edited collection visit this distance learning book website.
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