MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge Published: July 1, 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is an impressive and promising edited collection about massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). Education has swiftly advanced in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach students in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the World Wide Web makes possible powerful types of communication and interaction which are essential for education. There are not too many trends in elearning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC courses. It has become impossible to cover massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some MOOCs are based on prerecorded video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are a supply-side effort to respond to global increases in the demand for elearning and distance learning. These massively open online courses are plainly a powerful change agent influencing distance learning today.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World deals with the current state of learning technology and open education resources in general. This 2015 Routledge book explores quite a few improvements in massive open online courses (MOOCs). This interesting book also analyzes educational resources and online education issues. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds. This book includes Chapter #3 by Kumiko Aoki which is titled “MOOCs and Open Education in Japan: A Case of the Open University of Japan”. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown which is titled “Enabling Open Education: A Feasibility Protocol for Australian Higher Education”. The third part of this book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #7 by Markus Deimann, Alexander Lipka, and Theo Bastiaens. The fourth part of this book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #11 by Sanjaya Mishra, and Asha Kanwar. This book includes Chapter #15 which is titled “Learning about MOOCs by Talking to Students”. This chapter was written by Chuck Severance. For more details about this edited collection visit this educational technology website.
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