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 significant and promising book pertaining to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources (OER). Elearning has rapidly grown in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach humans all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological influence of the World Wide Web allows powerful types of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning. There are hardly any trends in distance learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOC classes. It is now impossible to cover MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massive open online courses are based on prerecorded video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC courses are a supply-side effort to meet increases in the demand for instruction and online learning. Massively open online courses are plainly becoming a relevant catalyst for innovations in online learning technology.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World considers the depth and nature of changes which include openness, faculty professional development, quality assurance, student success, and corporate learning. This 2015 edited collection articulates several far-reaching changes in massively open online courses. This engaging new book also researches open education resources (OER) and online education topics. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #3. This book includes Chapter #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown 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 is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #11 by Sanjaya Mishra, and Asha Kanwar which is titled “Quality Assurance for Open Educational Resources: What’s the Difference?”. This book includes Chapter #13 which is titled “Unbundling Higher Education and the Georgia Tech Online M.S. in Computer Science: A Chronicle”. This chapter was written by Richard DeMillo. For more details about this 2015 Routledge edited collection please visit this learning theory (education) website.
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