MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Published by Routledge Chapman & Hall (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is a thought-provoking and promising new edited collection having to do with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). Online education has rapidly improved in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach humans in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological impact of the World Wide Web makes available practicable kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for learning technology. There are hardly any trends in education over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC courses. We can no longer cover MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massively open online courses are based on recorded video group discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are an effort to meet global increases in the demand for erudition and online education. These MOOC courses are without question a meaningful change agent influencing online education technology today.
MOOCs and Open Education addresses the potential of distance learning technology to provide access to new opportunities. This Routledge Chapman & Hall book explores several crucial evolvements in massively open online courses (MOOC). This book also studies open education 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”. 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 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown which is titled “Enabling Open Education: A Feasibility Protocol for Australian Higher Education”. This book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #8. This book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #10 by Karen Swan, Scott Day, Leonard Bogle, and Traci van Prooyen which is titled “AMP: A Tool for Characterizing the Pedagogical Approaches of MOOCs”. This book includes Chapter #16 which is titled “The Collaborative Design and Development of MOOCs for Teacher Professional Development”. This chapter was written by Bernard Robin and Sara McNeil. To learn more about this Routledge Chapman & Hall book please visit this e-learning website.
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