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 a fine and promising book having to do with massively open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources (OERs). Digital elearning technology has quickly evolved in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach students in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the World Wide Web allows powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital educational technology. There are hardly any trends in distance learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOCs. It is now impossible to cover these massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some MOOC classes are based on prerecorded video seminars 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 teaching and online education. These massive online courses are obviously a powerful change agent influencing learning technology today.
MOOCs and Open Education explores the depth and nature of changes which include openness, faculty professional development, quality assurance, student success, and corporate learning. This 2015 Routledge book examines numerous meaningful advances in MOOC courses. This thought-provoking new book also considers educational resources and online education topics. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley. The second part of this book includes Chapter #5 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 by Maggie Hartnett, Mark Brown, Amy Wilson. The fourth part of this book includes Chapter #10. The fifth part of this book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #15. To find out more about this 2015 Routledge edited collection please see this open educational resources (oer) website.
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