MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (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 interesting and promising new edited collection related to massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources (OER). Education has rapidly advanced in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach humans in nations all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological impact of the World Wide Web allows practicable kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital learning technology. There are scarcely any trends in online education technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It is now impossible to cover MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massively open online courses are based on prerecorded video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are an answer to recent increases in the demand for teaching and online learning. These massively open online courses are decidedly becoming a relevant catalyst for innovations in digital learning. MOOCs and Open Education considers the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual scientists academics, universities, and societies. This edited collection analyzes many significant advances in MOOC courses. This impressive new book also describes open educational resources (OERs) and online education issues. This book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #2 which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown which is titled “Enabling Open Education: A Feasibility Protocol for Australian Higher Education”. For more info about this Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection see this e-learning theory website.
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