MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is an interesting and promising new book pertaining to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources (OERs). Online education has swiftly evolved in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach humans all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the information superhighway makes possible powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for learning technology. There are not many trends in distance learning technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC classes. We can no longer cover massively open online courses 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 MOOC classes are a supply-side effort to meet increases in the demand for erudition and distance learning. These MOOCs are obviously becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in digital learning technology.
MOOCs and Open Education investigates the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual educational scholars academics, universities, and societies. This edited collection studies a lot of meaningful evolvements in massive open online courses. This cutting-edge new book also discusses open educational resources (OERs) and online education subjects. The front matter of this book includes a preface which is titled “Actions Leading to MOOCs and Open Education Around the World”. This book includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head. The second part of this book includes Chapter #4 which is titled “MOOCs, MERLOT, and Open Educational Services”. The third part of this book includes Chapter #9 by Jeff Haywood, Amy Woodgate, and David Dewhurst which is titled “Reflections of an Early MOOC Provider: Achievements and Future Directions”. The fourth part of this book includes Chapter #12 by Fred Mulder and Darco Jansen. The fifth part of this book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #14. This chapter was written by Paul Kim and Charlie Chung. For more details about this 2015 book see this open learning website.
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