MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is an engaging and promising book having to do with massively open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources (OER). Digital education technology has rapidly evolved in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach people all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The life-changing technological impact of the World Wide Web offers forms of communication and interaction which are essential for digital educational technology. There are not too many trends in blended learning over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of massive open online courses. It is no longer possible to cover MOOCs 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 MOOCs are a response to recent increases in the demand for tutoring and blended learning. These massive open online courses are clearly a meaningful change agent influencing distance learning technology today.
MOOCs and Open Education addresses the potential of online learning to provide access to new opportunities. This Routledge Chapman & Hall edited collection deals with dozens of big changes in MOOC classes. This fascinating new book also considers open education and online education issues. 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 includes Chapter #2. 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 which is titled “Enabling Open Education: A Feasibility Protocol for Australian Higher Education”. This book includes Chapter #7 by Markus Deimann, Alexander Lipka, and Theo Bastiaens. The fourth part of this book includes Chapter #11 which is titled “Quality Assurance for Open Educational Resources: What’s the Difference?”. The fifth part of this book 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 information about this 2015 edited collection please visit this open education website.
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