MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Published by Routledge Chapman & Hall.
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 a dramatic and promising edited collection relevant to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources (OER). Blended learning has swiftly progressed in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach students in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological influence of the Internet provides powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning technology. There are hardly any trends in technology-enhanced learning over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC courses. It is no longer possible to cover these MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some MOOCs are based on prerecorded video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side effort to respond to global increases in the demand for elearning and digital learning. These massive open online courses are certainly becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in distance learning technology. MOOCs and Open Education researches the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual researchers academics, universities, and societies. This book articulates dozens of noteworthy developments in MOOC courses. This appealing new book also discusses open educational resources (OER) and online education topics. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds. The first part of this book includes Chapter #2 which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. The second part of this book includes Chapter #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown. For more details about this edited collection please see this education books for teachers website.
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