MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
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 fascinating and promising book relevant to massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). distance learning technology has rapidly progressed in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach students all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological impact of the information superhighway offers forms of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning technology. There are scarcely any trends in distance learning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC courses. We can no longer cover these MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some MOOC courses are based on prerecorded video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massive open online courses are an effort to respond to global increases in the demand for e-learning and digital learning. These online MOOCs are decidedly a meaningful change agent influencing elearning today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World discusses the potential of digital elearning technology to provide access to new opportunities. This book describes several important developments in massively open courses (MOOC). This educative new book also analyzes open educational resources (OER) and online education topics. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #1. The second part of this book includes Chapter #4 which is titled “MOOCs, MERLOT, and Open Educational Services”. For more details about this book please go to this open educational resources website.
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