MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
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 a dramatic and promising new edited collection related to massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). E-learning has quickly progressed in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach participants in nations all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological influence of the World Wide Web provides practicable forms of communication and interaction which are essential for digital educational technology. There are not many trends in online education technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC courses. It is no longer possible to cover MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some massive open online courses are based on prerecorded video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side effort to respond to increases in the demand for teaching and learning and training. These online MOOC courses are unmistakably a relevant change agent influencing electronic educational technology today. MOOCs and Open Education talks about the current state of digital education technology and open education in general. This Routledge edited collection reviews a lot of major gains in massively open online courses (MOOCs). This interesting book also deals with open education resources (OERs) and online education topics. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds. This book includes Chapter #3 by Kumiko Aoki which is titled “MOOCs and Open Education in Japan: A Case of the Open University of Japan”. For more information visit this books about education website.
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