Find out more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is an interesting and promising new edited collection about massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OERs). Learning technology has swiftly expanded in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach students all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the information superhighway offers potent kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital education technology. There are not many trends in e-learning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. We can no longer cover MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some massive open online courses are based on recorded video group discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are a supply-side response to increases in the demand for edification and elearning. Massively open online courses are decidedly becoming a significant catalyst for innovations in distance learning. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World investigates the depth and nature of changes which include openness, faculty professional development, quality assurance, student success, and corporate learning. This Routledge Chapman & Hall book studies dozens of meaningful trends in massive open online courses (MOOCs). This compelling new book also analyzes open educational resources (OER) and online education subjects. The front matter of this book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder which is titled “Open(ing up) Education for All...Boosted by MOOCs”. This book includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. For more information go to this book about open education website.

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