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 edited collection related to massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). Online learning has quickly progressed in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach students in nations all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological impact of the World Wide Web makes possible potent kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for education. There are not many trends in digital education technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOCs. It has become impossible to cover these MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOCs. Some massive open online courses are based on video conversations plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side effort to respond to recent increases in the demand for instruction and training. Massively open online courses are definitely becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in e-learning technology.
MOOCs and Open Education describes the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual teachers academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge edited collection discusses quite a few far-reaching historical trends in massive open online courses. This exceptional new book also researches educational resources and online education subjects. This book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder which is titled “Open(ing up) Education for All...Boosted by MOOCs”. 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”. The third part of this book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #9. 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. This book includes Chapter #15. This chapter was written by Chuck Severance. For more information about this Routledge edited collection please see this open education website.
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