MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Published by Routledge Chapman & Hall.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is a dramatic and promising new book relevant to massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OERs). Online education has rapidly improved in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach people all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological impact of the information superhighway provides powerful types of communication and interaction which are essential for e-learning. There are scarcely any trends in elearning over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC classes. We can no longer cover massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some massively open online courses are based on prerecorded video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are a response to dramatic increases in the demand for tutoring and learning. These massive online courses are a relevant change agent influencing blended learning technology today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World addresses the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual higher education instructors academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection studies quite a few critical evolvements in massively online courses (MOOC). This interesting new book also investigates open education resources and online education issues. This book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder. This book includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. To learn more see this open educational books website.
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