MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is an interesting and promising edited collection relevant to massive open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources (OERs). Online learning has rapidly improved in terms of interactivity and the capability to reach people in nations all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformative technological impact of the information superhighway provides practicable types of communication and interaction which are essential for distance learning technology. There are hardly any trends in distance learning over the past half-century that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC courses. It is now impossible to cover MOOCs with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some massively open online courses are based on video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some MOOC classes are a supply-side response to decades-long increases in the demand for e-learning and digital learning. These massive online courses are unquestionably a relevant change agent influencing distance learning technology today. MOOCs and Open Education explores the basis for understanding the unprecedented educational opportunities available to individual mentors academics, universities, and societies. This 2015 Routledge edited collection talks about dozens of significant advancements in massively open online courses (MOOC). This edifying new book also addresses open educational resources (OER) and online education topics. This book includes Forward #2 by Fred Mulder. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #1. This book includes Chapter #4 which is titled “MOOCs, MERLOT, and Open Educational Services”. The third part of this book includes Chapter #8. 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”. For more details about this 2015 book go to this e-learning theory website.
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