MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge Chapman & Hall (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 fine and promising new edited collection related to massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OER). Digital education technology has quickly developed in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach students in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the information superhighway provides practicable types of communication and interaction which are essential for digital education technology. There are scarcely any trends in distance learning technology 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 MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some MOOCs are based on video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are an effort to meet recent increases in the demand for edification and elearning. These online MOOC courses are plainly a significant change agent influencing elearning today. MOOCs and Open Education discusses the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual academics academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 edited collection talks about a lot of notable advances in massively open courses (MOOC). This significant new book also analyzes open education resources and online education issues. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds which is titled “Actions Leading to MOOCs and Open Education Around the World”. This book includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head. To learn more go to this books about open education website.
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