MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 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 Around the World is an enlightening and promising new edited collection related to massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources. E-learning has rapidly evolved in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach humans in nations all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological impact of the World Wide Web makes available potent kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital education technology. There are scarcely any trends in technology-enhanced learning over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC classes. It has become impossible to cover these MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massive open online courses are based on recorded video conversations plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massive open online courses are an effort to respond to decades-long increases in the demand for edification and education. These massive online courses are certainly becoming a powerful catalyst for innovations in distance learning technology.
MOOCs and Open Education analyzes the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual scientists academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge Chapman & Hall book describes numerous big changes in MOOC classes. This interesting new book also investigates open education resources (OERs) and online education topics. This book includes Forward #1. The first part of this book includes Chapter #3 which is titled “MOOCs and Open Education in Japan: A Case of the Open University of Japan”. The second part of this book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #5. 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”. This book includes Chapter #11 by Sanjaya Mishra, and Asha Kanwar which is titled “Quality Assurance for Open Educational Resources: What’s the Difference?”. The fifth part of this book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #13 which is titled “Unbundling Higher Education and the Georgia Tech Online M.S. in Computer Science: A Chronicle”. This chapter was written by Richard DeMillo. To find out more about this Routledge Chapman & Hall book see this book about massively open online courses website.
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