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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is an impressive and promising book relevant to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources. Online learning has swiftly evolved in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach students in nations all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the information superhighway allows powerful forms of communication and interaction which are essential for electronic education technology. There are scarcely any trends in digital elearning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It is now impossible to cover MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massively open online courses are based on recorded video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are a supply-side response to dramatic increases in the demand for schooling and education. These massive open online courses are incontestably becoming a significant catalyst for innovations in technology-enhanced learning.

MOOCs and Open Education reviews the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual mentors academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge Chapman & Hall book studies numerous notable evolvements in massively open online courses (MOOCs). This interesting book also deals with open educational resources and online education issues. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens which is titled “The Role of MOOCs in the Future of Education”. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #3 by Kumiko Aoki. This book includes Chapter #4. For more information about this 2015 Routledge book go to this open education resource website.

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