Find out more about the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is an informative and promising new book about massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). E-learning has quickly advanced in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach people all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the Internet allows practicable kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital e-learning technology. There are few trends in electronic educational technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. We can no longer cover these MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOCs. Some MOOCs are based on prerecorded video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side answer to global increases in the demand for teaching and learning and education. These online MOOCs are definitely a meaningful change agent influencing technology-enhanced learning today.

MOOCs and Open Education discusses the current state of digital e-learning technology and educational resources in general. This 2015 edited collection analyzes dozens of big improvements in MOOCs. This fascinating new book also talks about open educational resources (OER) and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #1 which is titled “The Role of MOOCs in the Future of Education”. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. The second part of this book includes Chapter #5. To find out more about this Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection see this open education books website.

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