MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
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 educative and promising book related to massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources (OERs). E-learning has rapidly expanded in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach humans in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the Internet makes available potent types of communication and interaction which are essential for online education technology. There are few trends in distance learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It is now impossible to cover these MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some MOOC classes are based on recorded video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are a supply-side effort to respond to increases in the demand for edification and blended learning. MOOC courses are certainly becoming a powerful catalyst for innovations in elearning.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World studies the potential of online learning to provide access to new opportunities. This 2015 Routledge book investigates a lot of major evolvements in massive open online courses. This thought-provoking new book also articulates open educational resources and online education topics. This book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder. The first part of this book includes Chapter #2 which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #5 which is titled “Enabling Open Education: A Feasibility Protocol for Australian Higher Education”. This book includes Chapter #9 which is titled “Reflections of an Early MOOC Provider: Achievements and Future Directions”. This book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #12 by Fred Mulder and Darco Jansen which is titled “MOOCs for Opening Up Education and the OpenupEd Initiative”. The fifth part of this book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #17 which is titled “Feminist Alternatives to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): The Inception of the Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC)”. This chapter was written by Erika M Behrmann, Radhika Gajjala, Elizabeth Losh, T.L. Cowan, Penelope Boyer, Jasmine Rault, Laura Wexler and CL Cole. To learn more about this book visit this book about massive open online courses website.
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