MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is an engaging and promising new edited collection pertaining to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources. Electronic educational technology has swiftly advanced in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach humans all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological influence of the Internet makes available forms of communication and interaction which are essential for online education. There are hardly any trends in online learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC courses. We can no longer cover massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some massive open online courses are based on prerecorded video conversations plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are a supply-side effort to meet decades-long increases in the demand for instruction and elearning. These MOOC courses are incontestably a meaningful change agent influencing digital elearning technology today. MOOCs and Open Education discusses opportunities in elearning online learning services, virtual learning activities and digital learning materials which are growing rapidly. This Routledge Chapman & Hall book investigates numerous extraordinary advances in massive open online courses (MOOCs). This compelling new book also investigates educational resources and online education topics. This book includes Forward #2 which is titled “Open(ing up) Education for All...Boosted by MOOCs”. This book includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. To learn more please go to this open education books website.
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