MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge Chapman & Hall (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 an authoritative and promising edited collection pertaining to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources (OERs). Online learning has rapidly improved in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach students in nations all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the information superhighway makes available powerful kinds of communication and interaction which are essential for electronic education technology. There are few trends in online education technology over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these massively open online courses. It is no longer possible to cover these MOOC classes with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some MOOC courses are based on recorded video discussions plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massive open online courses are a supply-side effort to respond to decades-long increases in the demand for e-learning and training. These MOOC courses are unmistakably becoming a relevant catalyst for innovations in blended learning.
MOOCs and Open Education deals with the potential of blended learning to provide access to new opportunities. This 2015 edited collection reviews dozens of significant gains in massive online courses (MOOC). This fascinating book also discusses open educational resources and online education topics. This book includes Forward #1 by George Siemens. The first part of this book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #1. 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”. The third part of this book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #9 which is titled “Reflections of an Early MOOC Provider: Achievements and Future Directions”. This book includes Chapter #11. 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. To learn more about this edited collection see this open education book website.
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