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MOOCs and Open Education is an impressive and promising new book relating to massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OERs). Digital educational technology has swiftly developed in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach learners in every nation on earth since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological impact of the information superhighway makes available potent forms of communication and interaction which are essential for electronic education technology. There are scarcely any trends in learning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC courses. It is now impossible to cover these massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some MOOC courses are based on prerecorded video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side effort to meet recent increases in the demand for teaching and learning and online learning. These MOOCs are becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in technology-enhanced learning.

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World talks about the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual lecturers academics, universities, and societies. This book discusses a lot of substantial advancements in massively online courses (MOOC). This scholarly new book also addresses open educational resources and online education subjects. The front matter of this book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder which is titled “Open(ing up) Education for All...Boosted by MOOCs”. The first part of this book includes Chapter #3 by Kumiko Aoki. The second part of this book includes Chapter #6. For more information about this 2015 Routledge book see this open educational resources book website.

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