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 Around the World is an appealing and promising new book about massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). Digital educational technology has swiftly developed in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach learners in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the World Wide Web offers powerful forms of communication and interaction which are essential for blended learning technology. There are not too many trends in electronic educational technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC courses. It is now impossible to cover these massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOCs. Some massive open online courses are based on recorded video conversations plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are an effort to meet global increases in the demand for schooling and e-learning. These massively open online courses are certainly a powerful change agent influencing education today. MOOCs and Open Education deals with the depth and nature of changes which include openness, faculty professional development, quality assurance, student success, and corporate learning. This 2015 edited collection describes many substantial improvements in massive open online courses. This educative new book also talks about open education resources (OERs) and online education issues. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens. The first part of this book includes Chapter #2 which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. For more details please see this distance learning website.
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