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 a dramatic and promising book having to do with massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OER). Electronic educational technology has swiftly developed in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach learners in nations all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological influence of the World Wide Web allows potent kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for technology-enhanced learning. There are scarcely any trends in online education over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC courses. It is now impossible to cover these massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some MOOC classes are based on video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a response to increases in the demand for erudition and online education. Massively open online courses are surely a meaningful change agent influencing elearning technology today.
MOOCs and Open Education investigates the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual researchers academics, universities, and societies. This edited collection researches quite a few crucial gains in massive online courses (MOOC). This thought-provoking new book also explores open educational resources and online education topics. 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 which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. This book 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 is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #8 which is titled “MOOCs Downunder: Insights from the Open2Study”. The fourth part of this book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and 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”. 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. For more info about this 2015 Routledge book see this distance learning book website.
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