MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is a scholarly and promising new edited collection relevant to massively open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources. Online education technology has rapidly evolved in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach students all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological impact of the information superhighway makes possible practicable kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for online education. There are not too many trends in e-learning over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOCs. It has become impossible to cover MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some massively open online courses are based on recorded video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side response to decades-long increases in the demand for instruction and blended learning. These MOOCs are definitely a significant change agent influencing blended learning today. MOOCs and Open Education articulates opportunities in education online learning services, virtual learning activities and digital learning materials which are growing rapidly. This Routledge edited collection deals with several important gains in massively open online courses. This compelling new book also reviews open education resources (OER) and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #1 which is titled “The Role of MOOCs in the Future of Education”. This book includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley which is titled “The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure”. The second part of this book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #5. For more information about this Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection visit this book about open education website.
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