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 a compelling and promising book relating to massively open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources. distance learning technology has quickly expanded in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach students all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological influence of the Internet provides practicable forms of communication and interaction which are essential for e-learning technology. There are hardly any trends in elearning over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of these massive open online courses. It has become impossible to cover massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some massively open online courses are based on prerecorded video conversations plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are in response to decades-long increases in the demand for instruction and learning. These MOOC classes are incontestably becoming a powerful catalyst for innovations in electronic educational technology.
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World talks about the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual mentors academics, universities, and societies. This Routledge book deals with quite a few crucial historical trends in massive online courses (MOOC). This breathtaking new book also discusses open educational resources (OER) and online education topics. The front matter of this book includes Forward #2 which is titled “Open(ing up) Education for All...Boosted by MOOCs”. This book includes Chapter #2. This book 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 includes Chapter #7 which is titled “Strange Bedfellows?!: What can MOOCs learn from Distance Education?”. This book includes Chapter #10 by Karen Swan, Scott Day, Leonard Bogle, and Traci van Prooyen which is titled “AMP: A Tool for Characterizing the Pedagogical Approaches of MOOCs”. This book includes Chapter #16. This chapter was written by Bernard Robin and Sara McNeil. To learn more about this Routledge Chapman & Hall book go to this open educational resources book website.
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