MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge Chapman & Hall (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is an enlightening and promising edited collection about massive open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources (OER). Distance learning technology has quickly evolved in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach people all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the World Wide Web makes available practicable kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning technology. There are scarcely any trends in online learning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It has become impossible to cover MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some MOOC classes are based on prerecorded video group discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side effort to respond to dramatic increases in the demand for elearning and blended learning. MOOC classes are noticeably becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in electronic education technology. MOOCs and Open Education deals with the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual educational scholars academics, universities, and societies. This book analyzes a lot of historical trends in massive open online courses. This impressive book also describes open education resources and online education topics. This book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder which is titled “Open(ing up) Education for All...Boosted by MOOCs”. For more info go to this distance learning website.
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