MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
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 edited collection pertaining to massively open online courses and open education resources (OERs). Digital learning has rapidly evolved 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 impact of the Internet makes available forms of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning. There are few trends in digital elearning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC courses. It is now impossible to cover MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOCs. Some massively open online courses are based on prerecorded video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are an effort to respond to decades-long increases in the demand for training and online education. These massive online courses are decidedly becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in digital elearning technology. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World deals with the depth and nature of changes which include openness, faculty professional development, quality assurance, student success, and corporate learning. This 2015 Routledge book deals with quite a few big advances in MOOCs. This edifying new book also researches open education resources (OER) and online education topics. This book includes Forward #2. The first part of this book includes Chapter #2. The second part of this book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #4 by Gerard L. Hanley. For more information about this 2015 Routledge book please see this educational technology website.
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