MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is a fascinating and promising new book pertaining to massively open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources. Digital educational technology has quickly grown in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach humans in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the World Wide Web offers forms of communication and interaction which are essential for elearning. There are scarcely any trends in distance learning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of MOOCs. We can no longer cover these massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some massive open online courses are based on prerecorded video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side answer to decades-long increases in the demand for instruction and education. Massive open online courses are obviously a powerful change agent influencing education today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World investigates opportunities in learning technology online learning services, virtual learning activities and digital learning materials which are growing rapidly. This Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection describes several extraordinary developments in massively open courses (MOOC). This exciting new book also addresses open education resources (OER) and online education issues. This book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder. The first part of this book includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley which is titled “The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure”. To find out more please visit this open educational resources website.
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