MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is an exceptional and promising edited collection about massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources (OER). E-learning has swiftly improved in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach people in every nation on earth since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological impact of the World Wide Web allows powerful types of communication and interaction which are essential for online education. There are not too many trends in e-learning over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOCs. It is now impossible to cover these massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOCs. Some MOOCs are based on recorded video group discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are in response to recent increases in the demand for erudition and learning. These MOOC classes are absolutely a significant change agent influencing online education today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World studies the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual educators academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge Chapman & Hall book investigates a lot of far-reaching historical trends in MOOC courses. This book also addresses open educational resources (OERs) and online education topics. The front matter of this book includes Forward #2. 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 is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and 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 edited collection please see this book about open education website.
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