MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Published by Routledge Chapman & Hall.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is a scholarly and promising book pertaining to massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources (OERs). Digital education technology has quickly evolved in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach learners in every nation on earth since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the information superhighway offers types of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning technology. There are hardly any trends in digital education technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOCs. It has become impossible to cover massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOCs. Some MOOC classes are based on video group discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side effort to respond to decades-long increases in the demand for schooling and blended learning. MOOCs are plainly a relevant change agent influencing distance learning today.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World studies the depth and nature of changes which include openness, faculty professional development, quality assurance, student success, and corporate learning. This Routledge book articulates a lot of remarkable developments in massively open courses (MOOC). This edifying new book also analyzes open educational resources (OER) and online education topics. This book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder which is titled “Open(ing up) Education for All...Boosted by MOOCs”. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #1 which is titled “The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure”. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown which is titled “Enabling Open Education: A Feasibility Protocol for Australian Higher Education”. This book includes Chapter #7 by Markus Deimann, Alexander Lipka, and Theo Bastiaens. This book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #10. The fifth part of this book includes Chapter #14. This chapter was written by Paul Kim and Charlie Chung. For more info about this Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection see this book about open education website.
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