MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is an educative and promising book relevant to massive open online courses (MOOC) and open education resources (OERs). Education has rapidly expanded in terms of interactivity and the opportunity to reach humans in nations all over the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological impact of the information superhighway offers forms of communication and interaction which are essential for online education. There are hardly any trends in digital learning over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of these MOOCs. We can no longer cover MOOC courses with one definition because there are many different categories of MOOC courses. Some MOOC classes are based on video workshops plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOCs are an answer to recent increases in the demand for erudition and online learning. These massively open online courses are unmistakably becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in online learning. MOOCs and Open Education explores the potential of education to provide access to new opportunities. This 2015 edited collection deals with dozens of far-reaching advancements in massive online courses (MOOC). This enlightening new book also considers open educational resources (OERs) and online education topics. The front matter of 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 includes Chapter #2 by Karen Head which is titled “The Single Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization”. The second part of this book includes Chapter #4 by Gerard L. Hanley 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 #8 by Maggie Hartnett, Mark Brown, Amy Wilson. The fourth part of 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”. For more details about this Routledge book please see this open educational book website.
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