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Atlanta, GA | Posted: November 4, 2016
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LMC Faculty book received recognition
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Book Award
DDL Distance Education Book Award
MOOCs & Open Education Book
The "MOOCS and Open Education Around the World" book published last year by Routledge, with contributions from many LMC faculty has been featured in keynote, invited, spotlight, and presidential sessions at four major conferences during the past year:
In addition, on November 4th, the book was given away at a conference at the University of Houston, “Education 20/20: Innovative Teaching and Learning at a Distance”.
Last week, the book received a first place book award at the AECT conference:
DDL Distance Education Book Award
The 2016 AECT Division of Distance Learning Book Award is presented in recognition of a print or digital book published within the last three years that describes important theoretical or practical aspects of distance education that can help others involved in distance education or those researching an important aspect of distance education. The primary focus of the book must be directly related to distance education.
AECT Division of Distance Learning (DDL) Distance Education Book Award. 2016 -- First Place. MOOCs and Open Education Around the World, Editors: Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, & Thomas H. Reynolds. NY: Routledge.Presented at the 2016 Conference of the Association for Educational Technology and Communications (AECT), Las Vegas, NV.
The book homepage is at: http://moocsbook.com/. From there, you can read various book reviews and watch a Presidential session on the MOOCs book from the AECT conference last year.
