MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a cutting-edge and promising new edited collection relevant to massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OER). Blended learning has swiftly evolved in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach people in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the Internet offers forms of communication and interaction which are essential for digital educational technology. There are not many trends in electronic education technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC classes. It has become impossible to cover massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some MOOC courses are based on video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are an effort to respond to dramatic increases in the demand for teaching and learning and distance learning. MOOC classes are unmistakably a meaningful change agent influencing learning technology today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World explores the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual educational scholars academics, universities, and societies. This book examines a lot of far-reaching trends in massively open online courses. This book also addresses open education resources and online education topics. The front matter of this book includes Forward #1 which is titled “The Role of MOOCs in the Future of Education”. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #3 by Kumiko Aoki. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #4 by Gerard L. Hanley which is titled “MOOCs, MERLOT, and Open Educational Services”. For more details about this Routledge book please visit this distance education website.
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