MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is an interesting and promising edited collection relevant to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources (OERs). Digital e-learning technology has swiftly progressed in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach participants all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological impact of the Internet offers practicable kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for e-learning technology. There are few trends in education over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of massively open online courses. It is now impossible to cover MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some MOOC classes are based on video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side response to decades-long increases in the demand for elearning and e-learning. Massively open online courses are obviously a relevant change agent influencing blended learning today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World investigates the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual higher education instructors academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 Routledge book deals with dozens of notable improvements in massively open online courses (MOOCs). This book also studies educational resources and online education topics. This book includes a preface which is titled “Actions Leading to MOOCs and Open Education Around the World”. This book includes Chapter #1 which is titled “The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure”. For more info see this elearning website.
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