MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge Chapman & Hall.
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 an exciting and promising new book about massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OER). Digital learning technology has quickly expanded in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach participants all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological impact of the information superhighway offers powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for online learning. There are not many trends in online education technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It is now impossible to cover massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some MOOC classes are based on video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are an effort to respond to global increases in the demand for tutoring and blended learning. Massively open online courses are incontestably becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in digital learning technology. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World studies the potential of learning technology to provide access to new opportunities. This edited collection describes numerous substantial improvements in MOOC classes. This fascinating new book also addresses open education resources and online education subjects. This book includes a preface. This book includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley which is titled “The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure”. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #6 by Laura Czerniewicz, Glenda Cox, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Michelle Willmers which is titled “Open Education at the University of Cape Town”. To find out more about this Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection please see this open education resource website.
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