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 a significant and promising new book having to do with massive open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources. Electronic education technology has quickly grown in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach students all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological impact of the information superhighway provides practicable forms of communication and interaction which are essential for elearning technology. There are few trends in 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 these massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some massively open online courses are based on prerecorded video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are a supply-side answer to recent increases in the demand for e-learning and online learning. These MOOCs are without question a meaningful change agent influencing distance learning technology today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World explores the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual instructors academics, universities, and societies. This book reviews a lot of meaningful advancements in massive open online courses (MOOCs). This appealing new book also addresses open educational resources (OERs) and online education topics. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens which is titled “The Role of MOOCs in the Future of Education”. This book includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #4 which is titled “MOOCs, MERLOT, and Open Educational Services”. To find out more about this Routledge edited collection go to this blended learning website.
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