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 Around the World is a thought-provoking and promising new edited collection relevant to massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources. Blended learning technology has rapidly improved in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach learners in nations all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the information superhighway makes available powerful forms of communication and interaction which are essential for online education technology. There are not too many trends in elearning over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC courses. We can no longer cover these MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some massive open online courses are based on recorded video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are a supply-side response to decades-long increases in the demand for indoctrination and education. Massive open online courses are undoubtedly a meaningful change agent influencing electronic educational technology today.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World studies the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual educators academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 Routledge edited collection considers a lot of trends in massively open courses (MOOC). This interesting book also researches open education resources and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder. The first part of this book includes Chapter #3 by Kumiko Aoki. The second part of this book includes Chapter #4 which is titled “MOOCs, MERLOT, and Open Educational Services”. This book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #7 by Markus Deimann, Alexander Lipka, and Theo Bastiaens. This book 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 is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #16. This chapter was written by Bernard Robin and Sara McNeil. For more info about this Routledge Chapman & Hall book please go to this books about education reform website.
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