MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is an educative and promising new book having to do with massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OERs). Digital educational technology has quickly grown 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 possible potent forms of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning technology. There are few trends in technology-enhanced learning over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It has become impossible to cover these massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some MOOCs are based on prerecorded video group discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massive open online courses are in response to decades-long increases in the demand for edification and training. Massively open online courses are decidedly a significant change agent influencing distance learning technology today.
MOOCs and Open Education investigates the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual researchers academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 book analyzes quite a few significant historical trends in massively open online courses. This exciting new book also addresses open educational resources and online education issues. The front matter of this book includes Forward #2. The first part of this book includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. 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 #11 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 #14 which is titled “Creating a Temporary Spontaneous Mini-Ecosystem through a MOOC”. This chapter was written by Paul Kim and Charlie Chung. To learn more about this Routledge book visit this open educational books website.
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