MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is an interesting and promising edited collection relevant to massively open online courses and open educational resources. Online education has quickly expanded in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach students in nations all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological impact of the World Wide Web makes possible powerful types of communication and interaction which are essential for digital education technology. There are scarcely any trends in digital learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It is no longer possible to cover MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some MOOC classes are based on recorded video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are an effort to meet increases in the demand for indoctrination and distance learning. These massive open courses are decidedly a powerful change agent influencing elearning today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World studies opportunities in elearning online learning services, virtual learning activities and digital learning materials which are growing rapidly. This Routledge book explores many big advancements in massively online courses (MOOC). This authoritative new book also considers open education resources (OERs) and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #1 which is titled “The Role of MOOCs in the Future of Education”. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head. The second part of 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 which is titled “Open Education at the University of Cape Town”. To find out more about this 2015 Routledge book please see this distance education website.
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