MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge Published: July 1, 2015.
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 related to massively open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OERs). Electronic education technology has rapidly improved in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach students in every nation on earth since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the World Wide Web makes available potent types of communication and interaction which are essential for education. There are not many trends in e-learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOCs. It is no longer possible to cover these MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some MOOCs are based on recorded video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are an answer to dramatic increases in the demand for training and distance learning. These online MOOC courses are noticeably a powerful change agent influencing blended learning technology today. MOOCs and Open Education describes the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual corporate trainers academics, universities, and societies. This Book deals with dozens of crucial gains in massively open courses (MOOC). This new book also talks about open education resources (OER) and online education topics. For more details see this open educational book website.
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