MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge Chapman & Hall (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is an appealing and promising new book relating to massive open online courses and open educational resources. Elearning has quickly evolved in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach people in every nation on earth since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological impact of the Internet makes available powerful forms of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning technology. There are not too many trends in online learning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC classes. It has become impossible to cover these MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some MOOCs are based on prerecorded video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are a supply-side response to dramatic increases in the demand for schooling and digital learning. These online MOOC courses are decidedly a meaningful change agent influencing online education technology today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World describes the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual corporate trainers academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 Routledge book studies dozens of key changes in massive online courses (MOOC). This fine new book also investigates open educational resources and online education subjects. The front matter of this book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #3 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 #4 by Gerard L. Hanley which is titled “MOOCs, MERLOT, and Open Educational Services”. For more info about this Routledge edited collection visit this book about open education website.
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