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 a breathtaking and promising edited collection related to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources (OERs). Digital learning has quickly evolved in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach people in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological influence of the information superhighway allows forms of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning technology. There are few trends in learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC courses. It is now impossible to cover these MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some MOOC classes are based on prerecorded video group discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massive open online courses are a response to dramatic increases in the demand for erudition and education. These massive open courses are incontestably becoming a significant catalyst for innovations in e-learning.
MOOCs and Open Education researches the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual corporate trainers academics, universities, and societies. This edited collection studies many notable gains in MOOC courses. This informative new book also articulates open education resources (OER) and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #2. The first part of this book includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #4 by Gerard L. Hanley. The third part of 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?”. This book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #17 which is titled “Feminist Alternatives to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): The Inception of the Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC)”. This chapter was written by Erika M Behrmann, Radhika Gajjala, Elizabeth Losh, T.L. Cowan, Penelope Boyer, Jasmine Rault, Laura Wexler and CL Cole. For more information about this 2015 Routledge book please visit this instructional design website.
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