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 is an informative and promising edited collection relating to massive open online courses and open educational resources. Distance learning technology has quickly grown in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach learners in nations all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological influence of the information superhighway allows kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital e-learning technology. There are not too many trends in e-learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of massive open online courses. It has become impossible to cover MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some MOOCs are based on video conversations plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side effort to meet increases in the demand for edification and distance learning. These online MOOC courses are obviously a powerful change agent influencing e-learning today. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World talks about the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual educational scholars academics, universities, and societies. This edited collection considers several crucial advancements in massively open courses (MOOC). This new book also analyzes open education resources (OER) and online education topics. The front matter of this book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder. To learn more please go to this open educational book website.
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