MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Published: July 1, 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is a scholarly and promising book pertaining to massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources (OERs). Digital educational technology has swiftly developed in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach people in nations all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological impact of the information superhighway allows forms of communication and interaction which are essential for e-learning technology. There are scarcely any trends in digital education technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of massively open online courses. It is now impossible to cover these MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some MOOC classes are based on prerecorded video workshops 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. These online MOOC courses are undoubtedly a significant change agent influencing digital e-learning technology today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World studies the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual scientists academics, universities, and societies. This book studies a lot of key changes in massively open online courses (MOOC). This educative new book also deals with open educational resources and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #1. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley which is titled “The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure”. The second part of this book includes Chapter #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown which is titled “Enabling Open Education: A Feasibility Protocol for Australian Higher Education”. For more details about this edited collection visit this learning theory (education) website.
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