New Book: MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities
Chapter Abstracts and Contributors Bios for New Book:
Zhang, K., Bonk, C. J., Reeves, T. C., & Reynolds, T. H. (Eds.). (2020). Chapter Abstracts and Contributors Bios. MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South: Challenges, Successes, Opportunities. NY: Routledge. Available: http://moocsbook.com/bios.
New MOOCs Book:
Zhang, K., Bonk, C. J., Reeves, T. C., & Reynolds, T. H. (Eds.). MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South: Challenges, Successes, Opportunities. NY: Routledge. Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/MOOCs-Open-Education-Global-South/dp/0367025779
Sharable Frontmatter to New Book:
Zhang, K., Bonk, C. J., Reeves, T. C., & Reynolds, T. H. (Eds.). (2020). Frontmatter (i.e., Foreword, Preface, and Chapter 1). MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South: Challenges, Successes, Opportunities. NY: Routledge. Available: http://moocsbook.com/front.
"With e-learning technologies evolving and expanding at high rates, organizations and institutions around the world are integrating massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other open educational resources (OERs). MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South explores the initiatives that are leveraging these flexible systems to educate, train, and empower populations previously denied access to such opportunities.
Featuring contributors leading efforts in rapidly changing nations and regions, this wide-ranging collection grapples with accreditation, credentialing, quality standards, innovative assessment, learner motivation and attrition, and numerous other issues. The provocative narratives curated in this volume demonstrate how MOOCs and OER can be effectively designed and implemented in vastly different ways in particular settings, as detailed by experts from Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific/Oceania, and the Caribbean.
This comprehensive text is an essential resource for policy makers, instructional designers, practitioners, administrators, and other MOOC and OER community stakeholders."
About the MOOCs Book
"What an awesome book! It is really great to see a conceptual argument tying the two together — MOOCS and Open Education — in one place and providing us an understanding of how it will drive us in the future.
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Tanya Joosten, Director, eLearning Research and Development, Academic Affairs, and Co-Director, National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancements, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
First published 2015 by Routledge.
As new digital forms of formal and informal learning proliferate, there is an increasing need to better understand how people in different regions of the world are implementing massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other forms of open educational resources (OERs). Educators, researchers, politicians, and numerous other stakeholders want to grasp what the outcomes of these initiatives are and how they can be improved. Ongoing e-learning developments related to both technology and pedagogy have pushed institutions and organizations to grapple with issues of accreditation, credentialing, quality standards, innovative assessment, and learner motivation and attrition, among other areas of concern.
In response, MOOCs and Open Education Around the World explores and illuminates unique implementations of MOOCs and open education across regions and nations. The book also focuses on the various opportunities as well as the dilemmas presented in this rapidly evolving age of technology-enabled learning. What are the different delivery formats, interaction possibilities, assessment schemes, and business models? What are the key controversies or issues that must be discussed and addressed? This edited collection explains MOOCs and open education trends and issues in a variety of contexts, shares key research findings, and provides practical suggestions and recommendations for the near future. For more information visit http://moocsbook.com/.
About the IJEL Special Issue
The MOOCs and Open Education special issue of the International Journal on E-Learning (IJEL) is now published! It was edited by Mimi Miyoung Lee, Curtis J. Bonk, Thomas H. Reynolds, and Thomas C. Reeves (2015).
In April of 2001, the president of MIT, Charles Vest, announced the establishment of a project for placing MIT course contents on the Web for free access by anyone with an Internet connection. In effect, this announcement started the OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement. Since that time, open educational resources (OER) and more recently massive open online courses (MOOCs) have proliferated. A flurry of research reports, books, programs, announcements, debates, and conferences related to MOOCs and open education have encouraged educators to reflect on how these new forms of educational delivery might enhance or even transform education. As part of this global movement, the four editors of this special issue, Mimi Lee, Curt Bonk, Tom Reynolds, and Tom Reeves, organized a one-day preconference symposium on this topic at the International E-Learn Conference in Las Vegas in October 2013. One direct result of that event is this special issue of the International Journal on E-Learning (IJEL), which contains highly informative and important papers related to the present and future of MOOCs and Open Education around the globe. For more information from the AACE EdITLib visit http://www.editlib.org/j/IJEL/v/14/n/3/.
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