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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a fascinating and promising edited collection relevant to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources (OER). Education has quickly expanded in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach people in every nation on earth since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the Internet offers potent kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for e-learning technology. There are not too many trends in distance learning over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these massive open online courses. It has become 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 video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are an effort to meet dramatic increases in the demand for instruction and e-learning. Massively open online courses are unquestionably a meaningful change agent influencing distance learning technology today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World talks about the potential of distance learning technology to provide access to new opportunities. This 2015 book addresses dozens of noteworthy changes in massively open courses (MOOC). This book also explores open education and online education subjects. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds. The first part of this book includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. To learn more see this books about open education website.

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