MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 pages.
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 fascinating and promising new book having to do with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). Digital educational technology has quickly grown in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach humans in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the World Wide Web offers forms of communication and interaction which are essential for elearning. There are scarcely any trends in distance learning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of MOOCs. We can no longer cover these massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some massive open online courses are based on prerecorded video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side answer to decades-long increases in the demand for instruction and education. These massively open online courses are obviously a powerful change agent influencing education today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World investigates the current state of learning technology and education resources in general. This Routledge edited collection researches several extraordinary evolvements in massively open courses (MOOC). This exciting new book also addresses open education resources (OER) and online education issues. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds 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”. The second part of 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”. To find out more about this book please go to this open educational resources website.
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