MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is an appealing and promising edited collection about massively open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources. distance learning has quickly progressed in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach participants all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the Internet makes available types of communication and interaction which are essential for online education technology. There are not many trends in digital education technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC courses. We can no longer cover these massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOCs. Some MOOCs are based on recorded video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are an answer to recent increases in the demand for teaching and learning and elearning. Massively open online courses are unmistakably becoming a powerful catalyst for innovations in online learning technology.
MOOCs and Open Education researches the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual higher education instructors academics, universities, and societies. This book analyzes a lot of noteworthy advances in MOOCs. This authoritative new book also reviews open educational resources (OERs) and online education topics. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens. The first part of this book includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley which is titled “The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure”. The second part of this book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #4 by Gerard L. Hanley. The third part of this book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #8 by Maggie Hartnett, Mark Brown, Amy Wilson. The fourth part of this book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #12 by Fred Mulder and Darco Jansen. The fifth part of this book includes Chapter #13. This chapter was written by Richard DeMillo. For more information about this 2015 book please see this open educational books website.
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