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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is an impressive and promising book about massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources (OER). Digital educational technology has swiftly developed in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach learners in every nation on earth since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological impact of the information superhighway makes available potent forms of communication and interaction which are essential for electronic education technology. There are scarcely any trends in learning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC courses. It is now impossible to cover these massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some MOOC courses are based on prerecorded video seminars 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 and online learning. These online MOOC courses are a meaningful change agent influencing technology-enhanced learning today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World talks about the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual lecturers academics, universities, and societies. This book discusses a lot of substantial changes in massively online courses (MOOC). This scholarly new book also addresses open educational resources and online education subjects. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds. This book includes Chapter #3 by Kumiko Aoki which is titled “MOOCs and Open Education in Japan: A Case of the Open University of Japan”. For more information go to this open educational resources book website.

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