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 Around the World is an impressive and promising edited collection about massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OERs). distance learning technology has rapidly improved in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach students in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological influence of the World Wide Web makes available powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for e-learning. 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. We can no longer cover these massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massively open online courses are based on video group discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are a supply-side effort to respond to global increases in the demand for instruction and online education. These MOOCs are without question becoming a significant catalyst for innovations in learning technology. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World articulates the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual intellectuals academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 book deals with quite a few crucial changes in massively open online courses (MOOCs). This interesting book also examines open educational resources (OER) and online education subjects. This book includes a preface which is titled “Actions Leading to MOOCs and Open Education Around the World”. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #2 which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. The second part of this book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #5. To find out more about this book please see this learning theory (education) website.
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