MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 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 Around the World is an impressive and promising edited collection having to do with massively open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources (OER). Education has swiftly progressed in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach humans in every nation on earth since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the World Wide Web offers kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for blended learning. There are not too many trends in digital elearning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOCs. It has become impossible to cover these MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some MOOC classes are based on video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are an answer to recent increases in the demand for edification and online learning. These massive open courses are absolutely becoming a relevant catalyst for innovations in elearning.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World investigates the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual lecturers academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 Routledge book reviews dozens of notable advancements in massively open online courses. This appealing new book also articulates open educational resources and online education topics. The front matter of this book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens. This book includes Chapter #3 by Kumiko Aoki. The second part of this book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #6. This book includes Chapter #7 by Markus Deimann, Alexander Lipka, and Theo Bastiaens which is titled “Strange Bedfellows?!: What can MOOCs learn from Distance Education?”. This book includes Chapter #12. The fifth part of this book includes Chapter #17 which is titled “Feminist Alternatives to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): The Inception of the Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC)”. For more details about this 2015 Routledge edited collection visit this open educational books website.
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