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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a definitive and promising book about massively open online courses and open education resources (OERs). Digital educational technology has quickly grown in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach humans in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the information superhighway offers types of communication and interaction which are essential for digital elearning technology. There are not too many trends in e-learning over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It is no longer possible to cover these MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massive open online courses are based on recorded video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massive open online courses are a response to recent increases in the demand for edification and digital learning. MOOCs are decidedly a powerful change agent influencing blended learning today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World examines the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual higher education instructors academics, universities, and societies. This book considers many important changes in MOOC classes. This illuminating new book also addresses open educational resources and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens. The first part of this book includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. To find out more see this distance learning website.

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