MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is an enlightening and promising new book relevant to massive open online courses and open education resources. Digital education technology has swiftly improved in terms of interactivity and the capacity to reach students all around the world since the emergence of the Internet. The transformational technological influence of the World Wide Web makes available powerful forms of communication and interaction which are essential for online education technology. There are hardly any trends in blended learning technology over the past few decades that can match the sudden arrival of MOOC courses. We can no longer cover these massively open online courses with one definition because there are many different categories of massively open online courses. Some MOOC courses are based on video seminars plus facilitated interaction or discussion forums. Some massive open online courses are an effort to respond to recent increases in the demand for teaching and learning and elearning. These MOOC classes are certainly becoming a meaningful catalyst for innovations in digital learning. MOOCs and Open Education studies the depth and nature of changes which include openness, faculty professional development, quality assurance, student success, and corporate learning. This 2015 edited collection explores quite a few big gains in MOOCs. This book also considers open education resources (OERs) and online education issues. This book includes a preface. This book is about “MOOCs and Open Education: Historical and Critical Reflections” and includes Chapter #3 which is titled “MOOCs and Open Education in Japan: A Case of the Open University of Japan”. The second part of this book is about “Open Education Opportunities Now and On the Horizon” and includes Chapter #5 by Carina Bossu, David Bull and Mark Brown which is titled “Enabling Open Education: A Feasibility Protocol for Australian Higher Education”. This book includes Chapter #8 by Maggie Hartnett, Mark Brown, Amy Wilson. The fourth part of this book includes Chapter #11 by Sanjaya Mishra, and Asha Kanwar which is titled “Quality Assurance for Open Educational Resources: What’s the Difference?”. For more details about this 2015 book go to this distance learning book website.
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