MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (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 significant and promising new edited collection about massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). Digital learning has quickly advanced in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach learners all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the Internet makes available potent kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for e-learning. There are few trends in elearning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It is now impossible to cover these MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some massively open online courses are based on video conversations plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massive open online courses are an effort to meet global increases in the demand for instruction and education. MOOC classes are becoming a relevant catalyst for innovations in online education.
MOOCs and Open Education deals with the potential of distance learning technology to provide access to new opportunities. This 2015 Routledge book considers a lot of important advances in massively online courses (MOOC). This exceptional new book also addresses open education resources (OERs) and online education subjects. The front matter of this book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens which is titled “The Role of MOOCs in the Future of Education”. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #2. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #4 which is titled “MOOCs, MERLOT, and Open Educational Services”. 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?”. The fourth part of this book is about “Thoughts on the Quality of MOOCs and OER” and includes Chapter #10 which is titled “AMP: A Tool for Characterizing the Pedagogical Approaches of MOOCs”. The fifth part of this book includes Chapter #14. This chapter was written by Paul Kim and Charlie Chung. For more info about this 2015 book see this distance learning book website.
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