MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
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 fine and promising book having to do with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). Digital education technology has rapidly expanded in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach humans in nations all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the World Wide Web provides kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for online learning technology. There are not too many trends in digital elearning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOCs. We can no longer cover these massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massive open online courses. Some MOOC classes are based on video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are an answer to recent increases in the demand for edification and learning. MOOCs are without question a relevant change agent influencing blended learning today.
MOOCs and Open Education examines the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual corporate trainers academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 Routledge book discusses a lot of meaningful improvements in massively open courses (MOOC). This appealing new book also considers educational resources and online education issues. This book includes Forward #1. This book includes Chapter #2 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 #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown. This book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and 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 #12 by Fred Mulder and Darco Jansen. The fifth part of this book includes Chapter #14 which is titled “Creating a Temporary Spontaneous Mini-Ecosystem through a MOOC”. To learn more about this book see this elearning website.
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