Learn more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a significant and promising new edited collection related to massive open online courses and open education resources (OERs). Digital elearning technology has rapidly expanded in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach learners in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological impact of the information superhighway provides powerful types of communication and interaction which are essential for digital education technology. There are not too many trends in online education technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these massive open online courses. It is now impossible to cover MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some MOOC classes are based on video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are an effort to respond to increases in the demand for tutoring and training. These MOOC courses are undoubtedly a meaningful change agent influencing electronic educational technology today.

MOOCs and Open Education researches the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual teachers academics, universities, and societies. This edited collection describes quite a few far-reaching evolvements in massive open online courses. This scholarly new book also reviews education resources and online education topics. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds. The first part of this book includes Chapter #2. This book includes Chapter #4 by Gerard L. Hanley which is titled “MOOCs, MERLOT, and Open Educational Services”. To learn more about this 2015 Routledge edited collection please visit this open education website.

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