MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
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 edited collection related to massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). Blended learning has swiftly progressed in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach students in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological influence of the Internet provides powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning technology. There are hardly any trends in technology-enhanced learning over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC courses. It is no longer possible to cover these MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some MOOCs are based on prerecorded video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side effort to respond to global increases in the demand for elearning and digital learning. These massive open online courses are certainly becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in distance learning technology. MOOCs and Open Education researches the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual researchers academics, universities, and societies. This book articulates dozens of noteworthy improvements in MOOC courses. This appealing new book also discusses open educational resources (OER) and online education topics. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens. This book includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley which is titled “The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure”. For more details go to this education books for teachers website.
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