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 dramatic and promising new book about massively open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OER). E-learning has swiftly developed in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach participants in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the information superhighway allows kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital elearning technology. There are not too many trends in blended learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC courses. It has become impossible to cover these MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some MOOC classes are based on prerecorded video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massive open online courses are a supply-side response to dramatic increases in the demand for schooling and training. Massively open online courses are without question a meaningful change agent influencing online learning today.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World addresses opportunities in digital learning technology online learning services, virtual learning activities and digital learning materials which are growing rapidly. This edited collection researches dozens of important improvements in massively open online courses (MOOC). This informative new book also studies open education resources (OERs) and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens. 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”. The second part of this book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #6 by Laura Czerniewicz, Glenda Cox, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Michelle Willmers which is titled “Open Education at the University of Cape Town”. The third part of this book includes Chapter #8 by Maggie Hartnett, Mark Brown, Amy Wilson which is titled “MOOCs Downunder: Insights from the Open2Study”. The fourth part of 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”. The fifth part of this book includes Chapter #14 which is titled “Creating a Temporary Spontaneous Mini-Ecosystem through a MOOC”. This chapter was written by Paul Kim and Charlie Chung. For more information about this Routledge book please go to this book about open education website.
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