MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Published: July 1, 2015.
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 appealing and promising book related to massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources. Digital learning has swiftly progressed 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 Internet provides practicable kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital elearning technology. There are scarcely any trends in distance learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC courses. It is no longer possible to cover these massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some MOOCs are based on prerecorded video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are a response to dramatic increases in the demand for elearning and digital learning. MOOC courses are absolutely a significant change agent influencing technology-enhanced learning today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World researches the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual professors academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 Routledge edited collection studies quite a few improvements in massively open online courses (MOOCs). This educative new book also articulates open educational resources (OER) and online education topics. The front matter of this book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #3 by Kumiko Aoki which is titled “MOOCs and Open Education in Japan: A Case of the Open University of Japan”. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown. To learn more about this Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection go to this e-learning website.
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