MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (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 cutting-edge and promising new edited collection having to do with massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OERs). Digital educational technology has swiftly expanded in terms of interactivity and the ability to reach humans all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the World Wide Web makes available potent types of communication and interaction which are essential for electronic educational technology. There are hardly any trends in e-learning over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC classes. It is now impossible to cover massive open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some MOOC courses are based on prerecorded video lectures plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are a supply-side effort to respond to decades-long increases in the demand for teaching and digital learning. Massively open online courses are decidedly becoming a significant catalyst for innovations in online education technology.
MOOCs and Open Education examines the potential of education to provide access to new opportunities. This Routledge book studies numerous significant developments in massively open online courses (MOOC). This interesting book also describes open education and online education issues. This book includes a preface by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi Miyoung Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds which is titled “Actions Leading to MOOCs and Open Education Around the World”. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #1 by David Wiley. The second part of this book includes Chapter #4 by Gerard L. Hanley. This book is about “Researching and Evaluating Notions of MOOCs and Openness” and includes Chapter #7 which is titled “Strange Bedfellows?!: What can MOOCs learn from Distance Education?”. 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 which is titled “AMP: A Tool for Characterizing the Pedagogical Approaches of MOOCs”. The fifth part of this book includes Chapter #14. This chapter was written by Paul Kim and Charlie Chung. For more details about this 2015 Routledge edited collection please go to this open education resource website.
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