MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is an illuminating and promising new edited collection having to do with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). Online education technology has quickly evolved in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach humans all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological influence of the World Wide Web offers potent types of communication and interaction which are essential for online education technology. There are few trends in distance learning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC courses. It has become impossible to cover MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some massively open online courses are based on video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are a supply-side effort to respond to recent increases in the demand for indoctrination and blended learning. MOOC courses are absolutely becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in elearning technology. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World investigates the potential of digital learning technology to provide access to new opportunities. This Routledge Chapman & Hall book studies quite a few crucial gains in massively open online courses (MOOC). This exciting new book also deals with open educational resources and online education issues. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens which is titled “The Role of MOOCs in the Future of Education”. The first part of this book includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head. For more details please visit this book about massive open online courses website.
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