MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Published by 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 impressive and promising new book having to do with massive open online courses and open education resources. Online learning has swiftly evolved 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 information superhighway allows powerful forms of communication and interaction which are essential for electronic education technology. There are scarcely any trends in digital elearning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It is now impossible to cover MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massively open online courses are based on recorded video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are a supply-side response to dramatic increases in the demand for schooling and education. These MOOC courses are incontestably a significant change agent influencing technology-enhanced learning today. MOOCs and Open Education reviews the potential of digital learning technology to provide access to new opportunities. This 2015 edited collection analyzes several far-reaching historical trends in massive open online courses (MOOCs). This book also deals with open educational resources and online education issues. This book includes a preface which is titled “Actions Leading to MOOCs and Open Education Around the World”. The first part of this book 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 includes Chapter #6 by Laura Czerniewicz, Glenda Cox, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Michelle Willmers which is titled “Open Education at the University of Cape Town”. For more information about this 2015 Routledge book go to this open education resource website.
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