MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
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 scholarly and promising book relating to massively open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources (OER). Digital learning has swiftly improved in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach humans in nations all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the Internet allows kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital e-learning technology. There are scarcely any trends in technology-enhanced learning over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of massive open online courses. It is no longer possible to cover these MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOCs. Some MOOC courses are based on prerecorded video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are in response to dramatic increases in the demand for e-learning and online education. Massively open online courses are undoubtedly becoming a powerful catalyst for innovations in online learning technology.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World describes the depth and nature of changes which include openness, faculty professional development, quality assurance, student success, and corporate learning. This Routledge edited collection investigates many big trends in massively online courses (MOOC). This exceptional new book also studies education resources and online education topics. This book includes Forward #1 which is titled “The Role of MOOCs in the Future of Education”. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head 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 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 which is titled “Strange Bedfellows?!: What can MOOCs learn from Distance Education?”. This book includes Chapter #10 by Karen Swan, Scott Day, Leonard Bogle, and Traci van Prooyen. This book includes Chapter #17. This chapter was written by Erika M Behrmann, Radhika Gajjala, Elizabeth Losh, T.L. Cowan, Penelope Boyer, Jasmine Rault, Laura Wexler and CL Cole. To find out more about this 2015 book go to this books about education reform website.
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