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 fine and promising new book having to do with massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources (OER). Digital elearning technology has quickly evolved in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach students in all parts of the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the World Wide Web allows powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for digital educational technology. There are hardly any trends in distance learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOCs. It is now impossible to cover these massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC classes. Some MOOC classes are based on prerecorded video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massively open online courses are a supply-side effort to respond to decades-long increases in the demand for teaching and online education. MOOCs are obviously becoming a powerful catalyst for innovations in learning technology.
MOOCs and Open Education explores the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual trainers academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge book considers several gains in MOOC courses. This thought-provoking new book also considers educational resources and online education topics. The front matter of this book includes Forward #1 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 #1 by David Wiley which is titled “The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure”. This book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown. This book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #9 by Jeff Haywood, Amy Woodgate, and David Dewhurst. 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. This book is about “Innovative Courses, Programs, and Models of Instruction” and includes Chapter #17. This chapter was written by Erika M Behrmann, Radhika Gajjala, Elizabeth Losh, T.L. Cowan, Penelope Boyer, Jasmine Rault, Laura Wexler and CL Cole. To find out more about this 2015 Routledge edited collection please see this open educational resources (oer) website.
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