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 is a fine and promising new book about massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources (OERs). Digital elearning technology has quickly evolved in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach students in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the World Wide Web allows powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital educational technology. There are hardly any trends in distance learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOCs. It is now impossible to cover these massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some MOOC classes 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 decades-long increases in the demand for teaching and online education. These massive open online courses are obviously a powerful change agent influencing learning technology today. MOOCs and Open Education explores the potential of electronic educational technology to provide access to new opportunities. This Routledge edited collection researches many notable trends in massively open online courses (MOOC). This significant new book also describes educational resources and online education topics. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens. This book includes Chapter #3 which is titled “MOOCs and Open Education in Japan: A Case of the Open University of Japan”. For more info please visit this education books for teachers website.
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