MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
MOOCs Book Contributors
Foreword
#1 The Role
of MOOCs in the Future of Education George
Siemens, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
George
Siemens researches
technology, networks, analytics, and openness in education. Dr. Siemens is the
Executive Director of the Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Research
Lab at University of Texas, Arlington. He has delivered keynote addresses in
more than 35 countries on the influence of technology and media in education,
organizations, and society. His work has been profiled in provincial, national,
and international newspapers (including NY Times), radio, and television. His
research has received numerous awards, including honorary doctorates from
Universidad de San Martín de Porres and Fraser Valley University for his
pioneering work in learning, technology, and networks. Dr. Siemens is a founding member and
first President of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (http://www.solaresearch.org/). He has advised government agencies
in Australia, European Union, Canada, and the United States as well as numerous
international universities, on digital learning and utilizing learning
analytics for assessing and evaluating productivity gains in the education
sector and improving learner results. In 2008, he pioneered massive open online
courses (sometimes referred to as MOOCs). He blogs at http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/ and on Twitter: gsiemens.
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Foreword
#2 Open(ing
up) Education for All…Boosted by MOOCs? Fred Mulder, UNESCO/ICDE
Chair in Open Educational Resources at the Open University of the Netherlands
Fred Mulder holds a UNESCO/ICDE Chair in OER at the Open University of The
Netherlands (OUNL). Previously, he was OUNL Rector for more than a decade. He is
actively involved in OER initiatives and policies at the national level, by
UNESCO, the OECD, and the EU. He is chairing the first pan-European MOOCs
initiative called OpenupEd which was launched in April 2013 by EADTU (i.e., the European Association of Distance
Teaching Universities). In addition, he is leading the Global OER Graduate Network. Mulder
has received a Royal decoration (2007) for his work in Lifelong Learning, the
ICDE Individual Prize of Excellence (2012) for his efforts in OER, and the Leadership
Award for OpenCourseWare Excellence (2014).
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Preface Actions
Leading to “MOOCs and Open Education Around the World” Curtis J.
Bonk, Indiana University, USA Mimi Miyoung
Lee, University of Houston, USA Thomas C.
Reeves, The University of Georgia, USA Thomas H.
Reynolds, National University, USA
Curtis
J. Bonk is Professor
of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University and President of
CourseShare. Drawing on his background as a corporate controller, CPA,
educational psychologist, and instructional technologist, Bonk offers unique
insights into the intersection of business, education, psychology, and
technology. A well-known authority on emerging technologies for learning, Bonk
reflects on his speaking experiences around the world in his popular blog, TravelinEdMan.
In 2014, he also was named the recipient of the Mildred B. and Charles A.
Wedemeyer Award for Outstanding Practitioner in Distance Education. He has
authored several widely used technology books, including The World Is Open,
Empowering Online Learning, The Handbook of Blended Learning, Electronic
Collaborators, and, most recently, Adding Some TEC-VARIETY which is
free as an eBook (http://tec-variety.com/).
His homepage contains much free and open material (http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/) and
he can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana.edu.
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Mimi
Miyoung Lee is
Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University
of Houston. She received her Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology from
Indiana University at Bloomington in 2004. Her research interests include
global and multicultural education, theories of identity formation,
sociological examination of online communities, issues of representation, and
critical ethnography. Mimi has published research on STEM related online
teacher education, cross-cultural training research, interactive
videoconferencing, opencourseware, and qualitative research. She may be
contacted at mlee7@uh.edu.
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Thomas
C. Reeves is
Professor Emeritus of Learning, Design, and Technology at The University of Georgia.
Professor Reeves has designed and evaluated numerous interactive learning
programs and projects. In recognition of these efforts, in 2003 he received the
AACE Fellowship Award, in 2010 he was made an ASCILITE Fellow, and in 2013 he
received the AECT David
H. Jonassen Excellence in Research Award.
His books include Interactive Learning Systems Evaluation (with John
Hedberg), a Guide to Authentic E-Learning (with Jan Herrington and Ron
Oliver), and Conducting Educational Design Research (with Susan McKenney).
His research interests include evaluation, authentic tasks for learning,
educational design research, and educational technology in developing
countries. He can be reached at treeves@uga.edu
and his homepage can be found at http://www.evaluateitnow.com/.
Thomas H.
Reynolds is currently
a professor of Teacher Education at National University in La Jolla, California
where he researches design of online learning environments, standards-based
online assessment, and innovations in e-learning. Before coming to National
University, he served on faculty at Texas A&M University after earning
earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Reynolds has twice served as a Fulbright
Scholar–2010 in Colombia where he researched open education resources and 1998
in Peru where he lectured on Web-based learning and technology-enhanced
instruction. His present activities and responsibilities include projects in
Colombia, coordination of an e-teaching and learning master’s degree
specialization, and leadership in online quality assurance and online course
review and development for National University. He can be contacted at treynold@nu.edu.
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Chapter 1 The MOOC
Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure David Wiley,
Co-founder
and Chief Academic Officer, Lumen Learning, USA
David
Wiley is Chief Academic
Officer and Co-founder of Lumen Learning, an organization dedicated to
increasing student success and improving the affordability of education through
the adoption of open educational resources by middle schools, high schools,
community and state colleges, and universities. He is also currently a
Shuttleworth Fellow, Education Fellow at Creative Commons, and an adjunct
faculty member in Brigham Young University's graduate program in Instructional
Psychology and Technology. Dr. Wiley has received an NSF CAREER grant and was a
Nonresident Fellow in the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law
School as well as a Peery Social Entrepreneurship Research Fellow in the
Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. As a social
entrepreneur, Dr. Wiley has founded or co-founded numerous entities including
Lumen Learning, Degreed, and the Open High School of Utah (now Mountain Heights
Academy).
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Chapter 2 The Single
Canon: MOOCs and Academic Colonization Karen Head,
The Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Karen Head is Director of the Communication Center at the Georgia
Institute of Technology, and an Assistant Professor in the School of
Literature, Media, and Communication. Her research areas focus on writing and
communication theory and pedagogical practice. In 2012-13, she was part of the
GT team awarded a Gates Foundation Grant to develop one of the first MOOCs
focused on college writing. She has published several articles about that
experience.
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Chapter 3
MOOCs and Open Education
in Japan: A Case of the Open University of Japan Kumiko Aoki,
The Open University of Japan
Kumiko
Aoki is Professor of
Informatics and Professor in the Center of Open and Distance Education at the
Open University of Japan. Previously she was Associate Professor at the
National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME), Japan, from 2004 to 2009,
Assistant Professor of Communication at Boston University from 1998 to 2003,
and Assistant Professor of Information Technology at Rochester Institute of
Technology from 1995 to 1998. She received her Ph.D. in Communication and
Information Sciences from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1995. Drawing on
her interdisciplinary and transcultural background, she spoke at international
conferences and published articles both in Japanese and in English on the
topics ranging from distance education, e-learning, learning design,
cross-cultural collaborative learning, and tele-collaboration.
Chapter 4
MOOCs,
MERLOT, and Open Educational Services Gerard L.
Hanley, Executive Director, MERLOT and Assistant Vice Chancellor, California
State University, Office of the Chancellor, USA
Gerard L. Hanley is the Executive Director of MERLOT (Multimedia Educational
Resource for Learning and Online Teaching at www.merlot.org ) and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Technology
Services for the California State University (CSU), Office of the Chancellor (www.calstate.edu/ats). At MERLOT, he directs the development and sustainability
of MERLOT’s international consortium of higher education institutions,
professional societies, digital libraries, and corporations to provide
professional development and technology services to improve teaching and
learning. At the CSU, Gerry oversees the development and implementation of
system-wide academic technology initiatives serving CSU’s 23 campuses with over
22,000 faculty and over 445,000 students. He can he contacted at ghanley@calstate.edu.
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Chapter 5
Enabling Open Education:
A Feasibility Protocol for Australian Higher Education
Carina Bossu,
University of Tasmania, Australia David Bull,
University of Southern Queensland, Australia Mark Brown,
Dublin City University, Ireland
Carina
Bossu is a Lecturer,
Learning and Teaching (OEP) with the Tasmanian Institute of Learning and
Teaching, at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her current work and
research are primarily focused on Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open
Educational Practices (OEP) in higher education; more specifically, she is
exploring issues related to learning, teaching, and professional development. Bossu
has presented and published widely and is currently involved in several
research projects investigating different aspects of OER and OEP in higher
education. Contact Carina at carina.bossu@gmail.com.
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David
Bull is currently the
Director of the Open Access College at the University of Southern Queensland. His research interests lie primarily
with issues related to equity and access policy in higher education and
preparatory program curriculum development. He has extensive teaching and
consultancy experience primarily associated with aspects of student diversity
in higher education. More recently he has been involved with the ‘open agenda,’
pursuing Open Educational
Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) activities, supporting the work of the OERu, and
advocating for the wide spread adoption of open practices for the delivery of
higher education.
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Mark
Brown is Director of
the National Institute for Digital Learning based at Dublin City University
(DCU). Before taking up Ireland’s first Chair in Digital Learning at the
beginning of 2014, Mark was previously Director of both the National Centre for
Teaching and Learning and the Distance Education and Learning Futures Alliance
(DELFA) at Massey University, New Zealand. Mark has played key leadership roles
in the implementation of several major university-wide digital learning and
teaching initiatives, including the enterprise wide deployment of Moodle, the
original design and development of the Mahara eportfolio system, and the
university-wide implementation of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform.
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Chapter 6 Open
Education at the University of Cape Town Laura
Czerniewicz, Glenda Cox, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, and Michelle Willmers,
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Laura
Czerniewicz,
researcher, educator, advocate, and strategist, is Associate Professor and the
director of the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Innovation in Learning and
Teaching (CILT). In addition, she recently headed the university’s OpenUCT
initiative. Previously having worked in educational publishing, Professor
Czerniewicz was the founding director of the Centre for Educational Technology.
She has research interests in student and academic digitally-mediated
practices, in open education and scholarship, and in learning technology as a
field.
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Glenda Cox is a lecturer in the Centre for Educational at the University
of Cape Town. Glenda Cox's portfolio includes: curriculum projects, “Teaching
with Technology” innovation grants, open education resources, and staff
development. Her key research area related to identifying why academic staff
choose to share or not share their teaching resources as open educational
resources. One of her main passions involves uncovering the innovative ways
staff incorporate technology into their teaching. She believes that showcasing
staff at The University of Cape Town who are excellent teachers is of great
importance, both in traditional face-to-face classrooms and the online world.
Cheryl
Hodgkinson-Williams
is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching
(CILT) at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. She holds a PhD in
computer-assisted learning and has taught and supervised in the field of
information communication technologies (ICTs) in education since 1998. Her
particular research interests include online learning design, electronic
portfolios, open education, the adoption and impact of open educational
resources (OER), and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). She is Principal
Investigator of the IDRC-funded international Research on OER in the Global
South (ROER4D) project.
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Michelle
Willmers has a
background in academic and scholarly publishing. She was previously a senior
team member in the Shuttleworth Foundation OER UCT initiative. She was also
programme manager of the IDRC Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme
(SCAP), a four-country research and publishing initiative aimed at increasing
the visibility of African research. She is currently the project manager of the
OpenUCT initiative.
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Chapter 7 Strange
Bedfellows?!: What can MOOCs Learn from Distance Education? Markus
Deimann, Alexander Lipka, and Theo Bastiaens, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Markus
Deimann was a Research
Assistant in the Department of Instructional Technology and Media from May 2006
to August 2013. Since September 2013, he has been Assistant Professor (Akademischer
Rat) and completed his studies of Educational Sciences and Political Sciences
at the University of Mannheim. He has been working as Research Assistant on the
Project “Multimedia-based Distance Study Medical Computer Science” at the
Ilmenau University of Technology and at the University of Erfurt. In addition,
he has been Visiting Scholar at the Florida State University, Tallahassee (USA)
for one year. In 2011, he was a Scholarship Holder at the Open University (UK)
for three months.
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Alexander
Lipka is a Research
Assistant with the Department of Instructional Technology & Media at
FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany. He holds a diploma in Education from the
University of Münster, Germany. His research interests include instructional
media choice, Cognitive Task Analysis, and domain-general instructional
principles. His current line of research examines how implementing instruction
with Social Media influences the way learners traverse learning event spaces.
Contact: alexander.lipka@fernuni-hagen.de
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Theo J.
Bastiaens is full
professor at the Institute for Educational Science and Media Research of the
Fernuniversität in Hagen, Germany. In addition to this appointment, he is
part-time professor of Educational Technology at the Open University of the
Netherlands. Bastiaens specific research interest is in Instructional Design
and E-learning. He has published extensively in these areas.
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Chapter
8 MOOCs
Downunder: Insights from the Open2Study Experience Maggie
Hartnett, Massey University, New Zealand Mark Brown,
Dublin City University, Ireland Amy Wilson, Massey
University, New Zealand
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Maggie
Hartnett is a
researcher and lecturer within the Institute of Education at Massey University,
New Zealand in the areas of e-learning and digital technologies. Her research
focuses on the intersection
of technologies and pedagogies and their influence on learners’ and teachers’
experiences, motivation, engagement,
and behavior in a variety of online, distance, and
blended learning contexts.
Her research interests
include motivation and engagement in digital environments, teaching and
learning with digital technologies, support for digital learners, digital
places and spaces for learning, and electronic portfolios and mobile
technologies. Maggie’s research interests are not confined to formal learning
settings.
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Mark
Brown is Director of
the National Institute for Digital Learning based at Dublin City University
(DCU). Before taking up Ireland’s first Chair in Digital Learning at the
beginning of 2014, Mark was previously Director of both the National Centre for
Teaching and Learning and the Distance Education and Learning Futures Alliance
(DELFA) at Massey University, New Zealand. Mark has played key leadership roles
in the implementation of several major university-wide digital learning and
teaching initiatives, including the enterprise wide deployment of Moodle, the
original design and development of the Mahara eportfolio system, and the university-wide
implementation of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform.
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Amy
Wilson teaches at
Massey University in the Masters in Education (e-learning) program. Dr Wilson
has developed online and blended courses and worked with teaching staff. Her interests
are in MOOCs, professional development, learning design, and e-portfolios. From
2005 to 2008, she was a Convener of the eLearning Forum of the Institutes of
Technology and Polytechnics in New Zealand. In this role, she facilitated
international online conferences and served on national e-learning projects. In
2005-2006, Dr Wilson was selected for the Flexible Learning Leaders in New
Zealand, a professional development scholarship awarded to emerging leaders in
the tertiary e-learning sector.
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Chapter
9 Reflections
on an Early MOOC Provider: Achievements and Future Directions Jeff
Haywood, Amy Woodgate, and David Dewhurst, University of Edinburgh, Scotland,
UK
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Jeff
Haywood is
Vice-Principal Knowledge Management, CIO and Librarian at the University of
Edinburgh. He is head of the University’s integrated Information Service,
offering a wide range of services in Library, IT, Technology-Enhanced Learning
and Classroom Technology. Jeff leads many major University-wide initiatives,
including the substantial expansion of taught online distance Master’s degrees
and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). As Professor of Education and
Technology in the University’s School of Education, his research interests are
in the development of strategies for effective use of ICT in education at
institutional, national, and international levels. He is currently academic
lead on a European Commission study of EU government options for modernising HE
using technology. Jeff is past member of the JISC Board and past Chair of the
eLearning Task Force for the Coimbra Group. He is currently a member of the
Scottish Government’s ICT for Excellence Group which is designing the next
generation digital learning environment for Scottish schools.
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Amy Woodgate is the Project Manager of Edinburgh University’s Online Learning
Special Projects, based within the Vice Principal’s Office of Information
Services. She is responsible for the expansion of the University’s online
learning portfolio through strategic investment projects, including the
Distance Education Initiative – fully online master’s programmes – and Massive
Open Online Courses. |
David Dewhurst has a life sciences background and
over 25 years teaching experience. He is Professor of e-Learning, Director of
Educational Information Services in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, and
academic lead of a university-wide distance education initiative. His research
in TEL is internationally renowned. David has over 250 peer-reviewed
publications, significant grant income, several PhD students, and directed
major educational projects in Africa and Eastern Europe. Major prizes include a
prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2005
for ‘The Virtual Hospital Online’ and the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation
International Prize for Animal free Research in 2006.
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Chapter
10 AMP: A
Tool for Characterizing the Pedagogical Approaches of MOOCs
Karen Swan,
Scott Day, Leonard Bogle, and Traci van Prooyen, University of Illinois
Springfield, USA
Karen Swan
is the Stukel Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership at the
University of Illinois Springfield. Her research is in the general area of
technology and learning, on which she has published over 125 journal articles
and book chapters and co-edited two books. Her research currently focuses on
online learning, learning analytics, and MOOCs. She was awarded Most
Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual by the Online
Learning Consortium, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Teachers College,
Columbia University, and the Burks Oakley II Distinguished Online Teaching
Award from UIS. She is a Fellow of the Online Learning Consortium.
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Scott
Day is Professor and
Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Illinois
at Springfield. He holds an Ed.D. in Educational Organization and Leadership
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Day teaches courses on
Instructional Leadership and Assessment for Learning Online. The program was
awarded the Sloan-C Outstanding Program of the Year in 2010. In 2010, Dr. Day
was awarded the Pearson Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching at the University
of Illinois at Springfield. Dr. Day has published on design-based approaches to
improving online courses, using peer review and analytics to develop communities of inquiry in online courses, most
recently, on pedagogical approaches to massive open online courses (MOOCs).
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Leonard
Bogle is an Associate
Professor in the Educational Leadership program and a University Fellow at the
University of Illinois at Springfield where he serves as a Master Teacher Leader
(MTL) online instructor. His major areas of interest are enhancement of online
instruction through the improvement of course design and the analysis of
pedagogy as presented in MOOC offerings. He is part of a team that has
published three book chapters on these topics. He has taught master’s courses
in leadership, curriculum design, introduction to research, Capstone projects,
Masters Closure projects, organizational dynamics, and teacher evaluation and
assessment.
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Traci
Van Prooyen is an
Assistant Professor in the Teacher Education Department at the University of
Illinois at Springfield.She holds an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction
from Illinois State University. Dr. Van Prooyen teaches courses on Child
Development, Educational Psychology, Classroom Management, Exceptional Child,
and Curriculum, Planning, and Assessment.In addition to her interests
related to online pedagogy, Dr. Van Prooyen’s research interests also includes
the qualitative aspects of teaching related primarily to dispositions.
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Chapter 11 Quality
Assurance for Open Educational Resources: What’s the difference? Sanjaya
Mishra, Commonwealth of Learning, New Delhi, India, and Asha S. Kanwar, Commonwealth of
Learning, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Sanjaya
Mishra is Director of
the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA). A leading scholar
in open, distance and online Learning in Asia, Dr. Mishra previously served as
Programme Specialist (ICT in Education, Science and Culture) at UNESCO, Paris
and as Associate Professor of Distance Education at the Staff Training and
Research Institute of Distance Education of Indira Gandhi National Open
University, India. Dr. Mishra has received the ISTD-Vivekanand National Award
for Excellence in Human Resource Development and Training in 2007. Dr. Mishra
was recipient of the Indian Library Leaders Professional Excellence Award 2012
and Prof. G. Ram Reddy Memorial Social Scientist Award 2013.
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Asha
Kanwar is the
President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Vancouver, Canada. She
is an internationally renowned Distance Educator who is also known for her
pioneering contributions in the area of learning for development. She has made
significant contributions to gender studies, especially the impact of distance
education on the lives of Asian women. A recipient of several awards,
fellowships, and Honorary Doctorates, Professor Kanwar has studied and worked
in different contexts, both developing and developed. She received her master's
and MPhil degrees from the Panjab University in India and DPhil from Sussex.
| Chapter 12 MOOCs for
Opening Up Education and the OpenupEd Initiative Fred Mulder,
UNESCO Chair in Open Educational Resources at the Open University of the
Netherlands, Darco Jansen, European Association of Distance Teaching
Universities (EADTU), The Netherlands
Fred Mulder holds a UNESCO/ICDE Chair in OER at the Open University of The
Netherlands (OUNL). Previously, he was OUNL Rector for more than a decade. He
is actively involved in OER initiatives and policies at the national level, by
UNESCO, the OECD, and the EU. He is chairing the first pan-European MOOCs
initiative called OpenupEd which was launched in April 2013 by EADTU (i.e., the European Association of Distance
Teaching Universities). In addition, he is leading the Global OER Graduate Network.
Mulder has received a Royal decoration (2007) for his work in Lifelong
Learning, the ICDE Individual Prize of Excellence (2012) for his efforts in
OER, and the Leadership Award for OpenCourseWare Excellence (2014).
| Darco
Jansen is
programme manager at EADTU (i.e., the
European Association of Distance Teaching Universities). He is responsible for development of
different long term themes for EADTU (-members) on online education, MOOCs and
OER, employability, and open and social innovation (e.g., with small
businesses). In addition, he is coordinator of several European projects.
Darco’s fields of expertise are e-learning, open innovation, educational
business development, continuous education, non-/informal learning, and
workplace learning. He worked for over 20 years at the Open Universiteit of the
Netherlands. Currently, Darco is the coordinator of the first pan European MOOC
initiative called OpenupEd.
| Chapter 13 Unbundling
Higher Education and the Georgia Tech Online M.S. in Computer Science: A
Chronicle Richard
DeMillo, The Georgia Tech Institute of Technology, USA
| Richard
DeMillo is an
American engineer and computer scientist who specializes in cyber security,
software engineering, and educational technology. He is Director of the Center
for 21st Century Universities and Charlotte B. and Roger C. Warren
Chair of Computer Science and Professor of Management at the Georgia Institute
of Technology. He is best known for his pragmatic style of working on
technical, business, and policy problems and has helped guide public and
private organizations through times of tumultuous change, including the 2002
Compaq-HP merger and the 1990’s divestiture of Bellcore by the Bell Operating
Companies. His 2011 book, “Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and
Universities,” was a seminal work that helped shape the current
international conversation about the future of higher education.
| Chapter 14 Creating a
Temporary Spontaneous Mini-Ecosystem through a MOOC Paul Kim,
Stanford University, USA and Charlie Chung, Class Central, USA
| Paul Kim is the Chief Technology Officer and
Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Dr.
Kim served on the Board of Directors of WestEd, the Committee on Grand
Challenges in International Development for the National Academies of Science,
and the advisory committee for the National Science Foundation's Education and
Human Resources Directorate. As founder of Seeds of
Empowerment, a non-profit global education incubator for social innovations
leveraging mobile technologies, Paul has developed, implemented, and evaluated
an array of technology tools for underserved and hard to reach
communities as a means of addressing literacy gaps. Dr. Kim has implemented
various mobile learning pedagogies such as SMILE (Stanford Mobile
Inquiry-based Learning Environment) in over 22 countries. He launched a MOOC on
designing new learning environments in the Stanford Venture Lab (now called
NovoEd) which attracted over 20,000 students from around the world. His
involvements in overseas projects include Oman's
launch of a new national public university, Deutsche Telekom's global
e-learning initiative, Saudi Arabia’s national online education
initiative, the national evaluation of Uruguay’s One Laptop Per Child project, and
Rwanda’s national ICT planning.
| Charlie
Chung has a
background in management consulting and works in entrepreneurial ventures in
the area of his passion; namely, lifelong learning. He works with Class Central
(www.class-central.com), a
comprehensive MOOC directory, and ZS Associates, a global sales and marketing
consulting firm, on a new venture in corporate learning. Charlie holds an MBA
from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
| Chapter 15 Learning
about MOOCs by Talking to Students Charles
Severance, University of Michigan, USA
| Charles
Severance has a B.S.,
M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Michigan State University. He is
currently a Clinical Associate Professor and teaches in the School of
Information at the University of Michigan. Charles teaches two popular MOOCs to
students worldwide on the Coursera platform: Internet History, Technology,
and Security and Programming for Everybody. He is also the editor of the
Computing Conversations column in IEEE Computer magazine and is the author of
the book, "Sakai: Building an Open Source Community." In
addition to viewing media as a personal hobby, Charles has co-hosted several
television shows including "Nothin but Net" produced by MediaOne and
"Internet:TCI." He has also co-hosted a radio show for 10 years on
Internet and Technology.
| Chapter 16 The Collaborative Design and Development of MOOCs for Teacher
Professional Development Bernard
Robin, and Sara McNeil, University
of Houston, USA
| Bernard
Robin, Associate
Professor of Learning, Design and Technology at the University of Houston,
teaches traditional and online courses on the integration of technology into
the curriculum, emphasizing educational uses of multimedia. He is a recognized
leader in the educational uses of digital storytelling and has been teaching courses,
conducting workshops, writing articles, and supervising student research on the
subject for over a decade. His Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling website
(http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/)
serves as a resource for educators and students interested in how digital
storytelling can be integrated into a wide variety of educational activities.
| Sara
McNeil, Associate
Professor of Learning, Design and Technology at the University of Houston,
teaches courses in instructional design, the collaborative design and
development of multimedia, and the visual representation of information. She
also researches, publishes, and presents internationally about emerging
technologies in educational environments. Her multimedia projects include the
design and development of Digital History (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu),
a comprehensive resource that provides teachers and students with a wealth of
high quality, historical resources at no charge, and New Technologies, (http://newtech.coe.uh.edu),
a website for K-16 teachers to help them select an appropriate Web 2.0 tool for
a specific task.
| Chapter 17 Feminist
Alternatives to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): The Inception of the
Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC) Erika
M. Behrmann, Bowling Green State University, USA Radhika
Gajjala, Bowling Green State University, USA Elizabeth Losh,
University of California, San Diego, USA T.L.
Cowan, The New School, USA Penelope
Boyer, San Antonio, TX, USA Jasmine
Rault, The New School, USA Laura
Wexler, Yale University, USA CL
Cole, University of Illinois, USA
Erika M. Behrmann is a doctoral student at Bowling Green State University. She
has a M.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies and is working towards a Ph.D. in the
School of Media and Communications. Her research focuses on feminist theory,
post-feminism, pedagogy, post-colonialism, and their various intersections and
materializations within digital media and gaming. Her work has been presented
at several national conferences such as the National Women’s Studies
Association and National Communication Association.
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Radhika Gajjalais Professor of Media and Communication at Bowling Green
State University. She is author of Cyberculture and the Subaltern
(Lexington Press, 2012) and Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South
Asian Women(Altamira, 2004). She has also co-edited books, including Cyberfeminism
2.0 (2012), Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice (2008), and South
Asian Technospaces (2008). She is also a member of the Fembot Collective
and FemTechnet (participating in the DOCC nodal teaching projects) and is
co-editor (with Carol Stabile) of “ADA: Journal of Gender, New Media and
Technology.”
| Elizabeth
Losh is Director of
Academic Programs, Sixth College at the University of
California, San Diego. She writes about gender and technology, the digital
humanities, distance learning, connected learning, media literacy, and the
rhetoric surrounding regulatory attempts to limit everyday digital practices.
Liz is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government
Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and
Mistakes (MIT Press, 2009) and The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in
the Digital University (MIT Press, 2014). She is the co-author of the comic
book textbook Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing
(Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013) with Jonathan Alexander. She is currently working
on a new monograph, tentatively entitled Obama Online: Technology,
Masculinity, and Democracy, and a new edited collection from University of
Chicago Press about MOOCs and other experiments in scale and access in higher
education.
| T.L.
Cowanis a
writer, performer and professor currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She teaches
at Eugene Lang College in Culture & Media, Gender Studies, and Integrated
Arts and is the FemTechNet Chair of Experimental Pedagogies in the School of
Media Studies at The New School. Across her various practices, T.L. is deeply
committed to the knowledges and aesthetics of transformational media,
performance, and subjects and scenes. Her homepage can be accessed at:http://tlcowan.net/.
| Penelope
Boyer is involved in
community-based work in San Antonio, TX. She conceived and directs the LHI
Art-Sci Projects at Land Heritage Institute (LHI), 1200 acres of open space
under development as a land museum. She holds a Ph.D. from the European
Graduate School (EGS) in Saas Fee, Switzerland. Her book, My Great
High-Roofed House: Homer’s Penelope~Paradigm, Periphrasis, Periphron,
Phenomenology, Poesis, Poludeukes and Praxis (Atropos Press, 2012) treats
the gynaeceum as a homosocial setting for early technology, among other things.
| Jasmine
Rault is
an Assistant Professor in Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College at The New
School in New York City. Rault works on themes of feminist and queer affective and cultural
economies and has new work in ephemera, “The Labour of Being Studied in
a Free Love Economy” (with T.L. Cowan, 2014); Women’s Studies Quarterly
on racialized queer debt and the politics of history-making (with Cowan, 2014);
and Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology on designing
trans- feminist and queer online archives (with Cowan and Dayna McLeod, 2014).
Rault's first book is Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity:
Staying In (2011).
| Laura
Wexler is Professor
of American Studies, Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies,
Director of The Photographic Memory Workshop, Principle Investigator of the
Photogrammar Project, and Co-coordinator of the Public Humanities Program at
Yale University. A scholar and theorist of visual culture, she authored the
prize-winning book, Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of US
Imperialism, and the book, Pregnant Pictures, with photographer
Sandra Matthews, as well as many other publications. Currently she is working
the intergenerational transfer of historical memory in family photograph
albums. She holds an MA, MPhil, and PhD in English and Comparative Literature
from Columbia University.
| CL Cole is Professor and Head of Media & Cinema Studies and Professor
of Gender & Women’s Studies, Criticism & Interpretive Theory, and the
Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Cole studies and teaches about sport, bodies and technology, media literacy,
and digital technology and pedagogy.
| Chapter 18 Changing
the Tune: MOOCs for Human Development? – A case study Balaji
Venkataraman, Director for Technology and Knowledge Management, and Asha S.
Kanwar, President and CEO, Vancouver, BC, Canada
| Balaji
Venkataraman is the
Director for Technology and Knowledge Management at the Commonwealth of
Learning (COL), Vancouver, Canada. He is a worker in the area of IT applied to
rural development and learning. His recent work relates to applications of
semantic Web technologies in agriculture. His current interests are in
deploying new generation mobile devices in rural learning and in examining the advantages
of MOOCs in support of skill development. Balaji received his master’s and
doctoral degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of
Madras.
| Asha
Kanwar is the
President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Vancouver, Canada. She
is an internationally renowned Distance Educator who is also known for her
pioneering contributions in the area of learning for development. She has made
significant contributions to gender studies, especially the impact of distance
education on the lives of Asian women. A recipient of several awards,
fellowships and Honorary Doctorates, Professor Kanwar has studied and worked in
different contexts, both developing and developed. She received her master's
and MPhil degrees from the Panjab University in India and DPhil from Sussex.
| Chapter 19 Harnessing
the Power of Open Learning to Share Global Prosperity and Eradicate Poverty Sheila
Jagannathan, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
Sheila
Jagannathan is Lead
Learning Specialist and Program Manager of the e-Institute, at the World Bank
Institute in Washington DC. She has over 28 years of experience in designing
and managing distance learning programs and transforming the use of online and
classroom pedagogies and technology. Sheila also provides policy advice and
technical assistance to World Bank country-level capacity building programs in
East Asia, China, the Middle East and North Africa, Africa, and South Asia. Her
interest areas include MOOCs, experiential pedagogy, online and hybrid or
blended learning strategies, the development of rich multimodal and social
learning environments, big data and learning analytics, learning management
systems, and learning ecosystems.
Chapter
20 The
Glocalization of MOOCs in Southeast Asia Zoraini Wati
Abas, Universitas Siswa Bangsa Internasional – The Sampoerna University,
Jakarta, Indonesia
| Zoraini
Wati Abas is a Professor in the field of instructional technology.
She has worked in both government and private universities in Malaysia and
Indonesia. She is now Director, Center for Learning, Teaching and Curriculum
Development at USBI-The Sampoerna University in Jakarta. Zoraini is an
e-learning pioneer and has played a key role in open and distance learning,
mobile learning, and in designing learning with appropriate learning
technologies. In 2014, she received the Education Leadership Award from the
World Corporate Universities Congress in Mumbai, India and was named second of
14 influential higher edu tech leaders in Southeast Asia.
| Chapter
21 Situating
MOOCs in the Developing World Context: The Philippines Case Study Melinda dela
Pena Bandalaria and Grace Javier Alfonso, University of the Philippines Open
University, the Philippines
| Melinda
Bandalaria is
Professor at the University of the Philippines Open University where she also
serves as Dean of the Faculty of Information and Communication studies. She
handles distance elearning courses both at the undergraduate and graduate
levels and is actively involved in research and community development projects.
Mel has helped coordinate international conferences on open education and
written extensively on e-learning in the Philippines. She was a panelist and
key participant in the preconference symposium at E-Learn 2013 in Las Vegas
which led to this book.
| Grace Javier Alfonso is a professor of Film and Mass Communication. She has been the
University of the Philippines Open University Chancellor since 2007 and is now
serving her third term. She is the current President of the Philippine Society
for Distance Learning. She is also Chair of the Philippine Commission on Higher
Education (CHED) Technical Panel for Transnational and Distance Education.
| Chapter 22 OER and
MOOCs in Africa: The AVU Experience Griff
Richards, Athabasca University, Canada and
Bakary Diallo, African Virtual University, Nairobi, Kenya
| Griff
Richards is a
Canadian e-learning researcher and an advocate of open education. Griff
received his doctorate in educational technology from Concordia University.
Among his many accomplishments, Griffset up British Columbia’s online
francophone high school and designed distance courses for Thompson Rivers
University - Open Learning, Internationally. In addition, he has participated
in several European research projects, was Foreign Research Fellow at the Open
University of Japan, and has designed open education modules in Africa. Griff
Richards is an Honored Professor in the Institute of Social Sciences and
Humanities in Kazan, Tatarstan. Griff currently teaches Instructional Design at
Athabasca University where he is Fellow of the Technology Enhanced Knowledge
Research Institute (TEKRI). He can be contacted at griff@sfu.ca.
His portfolio is at: athabascau.academia.edu/GriffRichards.
| Bakary
Diallo earned a PhD
in Educational Administration from the University of Ottawa Canada. He joined
the African Virtual University in 2005 and was appointed Rector in 2007. His
latest research activities promote the use of ICT in higher educational
institutions with a focus on the development and delivery of open education resources.
He is fully bilingual in French and English.
| Chapter 23 Open
Learning in the Corporate Setting Elliot Masie,
The Learning CONSORTIUM @ The MASIE Center, USA
| Elliott Masie is a leading researcher, analyst, thought leader and futurist in
the fields of learning, collaboration, and workforce effectiveness. Elliott is
the Chair of The Learning CONSORTIUM, a collaboration of 200 global companies,
focused on the future of learning and knowledge. In addition, he is the host of
the annual Learning Conference in Orlando, Florida as well as the CEO of The MASIE Center–a think tank focused on the
intersection of learning, education, and technology. He is the author of 12
books, including “Big Learning Data.” He has presented to over two million
professionals around the world. He has served on a wide range of corporate and
non-profit boards, including Skidmore College, the CIA University Board, and
FIRST Robotics. In addition, he is a Broadway Producer (Kinky Boots &
Allegiance). His website is http://www.masie.com.
| Chapter 24 ALISON: A
New World of Free Certified Learning
Mike Feerick, CEO & Founder, ALISON, Ireland
Mike
Feerick is
Founder & CEO of ALISON.com (https://alison.com/), a global leader in free online
certified learning. ALISON has five million learners and 500,000 graduates
worldwide. Founded in 2007, ALISON is widely recognised as the first MOOC
(Massive Open Online Course) provider. Mike is an internationally distinguished
social entrepreneur receiving a WISE Award from the Qatar Foundation (2013), an
Arthur Guinness Funding Award (2012), and an Ashoka Globaliser Fellowship
(2011). He was presented with a Diploma Award from UNESCO (2010) for
making access to education and skills training more accessible to all.
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Chapter 25
Alternative Models of
MOOCs
Ray
Schroeder, Vickie Cook, Carrie Levin, and Michele Gribbins, University of Illinois, Springfield
Ray Schroeder is Associate Vice
Chancellor for Online Learning at the University of Illinois Springfield. He is
also Director of the Center for Online Leadership and Strategy at the
University Continuing and Professional Education Association (UPCEA). Ray has
published the popular Online Learning Update and Educational Technology blogs
for the past decade. Ray Schroederwas named the inaugural 2010 recipient of the Sloan
Consortium's highest Individual award - the A. Frank Mayadas Leadership
Award.In addition, he received the 2011 University of Illinois
Distinguished Service Award. Finally, Ray Schroederis an inaugural Sloan
Consortium Fellow and the 2012 Innovation Fellow for Digital Learning by the
UPCEA.He can be contacted at Schroeder.ray@uis.edu.
Vickie S. Cook is the Director of the Center for Online Learning, Research and
Service at the University of Illinois Springfield. She holds a dual appointment
as an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership.
Her research focus in in leadership in online education. Dr. Cook may be
reached at cook.vickie@uis.edu.
| Carrie
Levin has been
working in the field of online learning since 2005. She serves as the Assistant
Director for the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service (COLRS) at
the University of Illinois Springfield. She has presented numerous workshops
and trainings on many aspects of online learning. Carrie has authored and
co-authored several proceedings papers and journal articles.She earned
her B.F.A. degree in Theatre at UIUC and her Master’s in Dance-Movement
Therapy/Counseling at Columbia College. In addition to her work with COLRS,
Carrie is an adjunct instructor at UIS in the Computer Science department.
|
Michele Gribbins is an
Online Learning and Faculty Development Specialist for the Center for Online
Learning, Research & Service at the University of Illinois
Springfield.She is also an Adjunct Lecturer for the Department of
Management Information Systems.She has presented at many national and
international conferences in the areas of online learning and information
systems.Her research has been published in the Journal of Information
Technology, the Communications of the Association for Information
Systems, Electronic Markets, and the International Journal of
Management Theory and Practices.
|
Chapter 26.
The Learning Future:
Personalised Learning in an Open World
Michael
Keppell, University
of Southern Queensland, Australia
Mike
Keppell is Executive
Director, Australian Digital Futures Institute at
University of Southern Queensland and Director of the Digital Futures Collaborative Research Network
(DF-CRN). He is also Project Director, Regional Universities Network (RUN)
Maths and Science Digital Classroom project, and currently leads and manages
projects worth over 12 million dollars. Mike has a long professional history in
higher education in Australia, Canada, and Hong Kong. His research focuses on
digital futures, learning spaces, blended learning, learning-oriented
assessment, authentic learning, leadership, and transformative learning using
design-based research. He is an avid photographer and adventurer and has
summited Mts Kilimanjaro, Kenya and Kinabalu.
|
Chapter 27.
Peer2peer
and Open Pedagogy of MOOCs to Support the Knowledge Commons Rita Kop, Yorkville
University, New Brunswick, Canada and Hélène Fournier, National Research
Council Canada
Rita
Kop is
dean of the Faculty of Education at fully online Yorkville University. She has
been a researcher at the National Research Council of Canada and holds a Ph.D.
in Adult Continuing Education. Her current research focuses on learning in
advanced networked learning environments. Before she joined the NRC, she was an
assistant professor at Swansea University in the UK. At Swansea, Rita worked
with community groups and universities contributing to community-based and
online services for adults in some of the most deprived areas of the UK. Dr.
Kop is originally from the Netherlands, where she spent ten years as teacher
and head teacher in elementary education. Additional information on Dr. Kop can
be found at: http://www.you-learn.org. She can be contacted at rkop@yorkvilleu.ca.
Hélène
Fournier
has been a Research Officer at the National Research Council Canada's Institute
for Information Technology since 2002 and holds a Ph.D. in Educational
Psychology from McGill University. The primary focus of her research is in education
and technology. She has participated in several research projects focused on
the application and evaluation of advanced technologies in the training sector,
in distance education, and, more recently, in learner-centered research and
development of Connectivist Massive Open Online Courses (cMOOCs) and Learning
and Performance Support Systems. Dr. Fournier has contributed to the
advancement of research in the field of distance education, online learning,
and adult learning. She has also been engaged in the study of informal learning
experiences in the context of cMOOCs. She has published widely in peer reviewed
journals and at international conferences.
| Chapter 28 MOOCs 2030: A Future for Massive Online Learning Rebecca Ferguson, The Open University, UK Mike Sharples, The Open University, UK Russell Beale, University of Birmingham, UK
| Rebecca Ferguson is a lecturer at The Open University. Her
research is focused on educational futures, learning analytics, MOOCs,
augmented learning, and online social learning. Her most recent book is Augmented Education: Bringing Real and
Virtual Learning Together, which was published by Palgrave in 2014.
|
Mike
Sharples
is Professor of Educational Technology in the Institute of Educational
Technology at The Open University, UK. He also has a post as Academic Lead for
the FutureLearn company. Mike’s research involves human-centred design of new
technologies and environments for learning. He inaugurated the mLearn
conference series and was Founding President of the International Association
for Mobile Learning. He is Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on
Learning Technologies. Mike is author of over 300 papers in the areas of
educational technology, science education, human-centred design of personal
technologies, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science.
| Russell
Beale is Director of
the Human-Computer Interaction Centre in the School of Computer Science at the
University of Birmingham, UK, and a Professor of HCI.Russell has been
involved with FutureLearn from the beginning, firstly as a critical friend and
now research.In addition to his work on pedagogies and interaction design
for MOOCs, he has conducted research on user-centred knowledge discovery,
intelligent support for browsing, and optimum information presentation in
complex situations.His current interests include how users can interact
with complex information. He is also exploring ubiquitous, pervasive, and
mobile computing as well as how technology impacts and affects our social
structures and activities.
| Chapter 29 Open
Options: Recapping this Book with Eyes on the Future Thomas H.
Reynolds, National University, USA Thomas C. Reeves,
The University of Georgia, USA Mimi Miyoung
Lee, University of Houston, USA Curtis J.
Bonk, Indiana University, USA
| Thomas
H. Reynolds is
currently a professor of Teacher Education at National University in La Jolla,
California where he researches design of online learning environments,
standards-based online assessment, and innovations in e-learning. Before coming
to National University, he served on faculty at Texas A&M University after
earning earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Reynolds has twice served as a Fulbright
Scholar–2010 in Colombia where he researched open education resources and 1998
in Peru where he lectured on Web-based learning and technology-enhanced
instruction. Present activities and responsibilities include projects in
Colombia, coordination of an e-teaching and learning master’s degree
specialization, and leadership in online quality assurance and online course
review and development for National University. He can be contacted at treynold@nu.edu.
| Thomas
C. Reeves is
Professor Emeritus of Learning, Design, and Technology at The University of
Georgia. Professor Reeves has designed and evaluated numerous interactive
learning programs and projects. In recognition of these efforts, in 2003 he
received the AACE Fellowship Award, in 2010 he was made an ASCILITE Fellow, and
in 2013 he received the AECT David
H. Jonassen Excellence in Research Award.
His books include Interactive Learning Systems Evaluation (with John
Hedberg), a Guide to Authentic E-Learning (with Jan Herrington and Ron
Oliver), and Conducting Educational Design Research (with Susan
McKenney). His research interests include evaluation, authentic tasks for
learning, educational design research, and educational technology in developing
countries. He can be reached at treeves@uga.edu
and his homepage can be found at http://www.evaluateitnow.com/.
| Mimi
Miyoung Lee is
Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University
of Houston. She received her Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology from
Indiana University at Bloomington in 2004. Her research interests include
global and multicultural education, theories of identity formation,
sociological examination of online communities, issues of representation, and
critical ethnography. Mimi has published research on STEM related online
teacher education, cross-cultural training research, interactive
videoconferencing, opencourseware, and qualitative research. She may be
contacted at mlee7@uh.edu.
| Curtis
J. Bonk is Professor
of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University and President of CourseShare.
Drawing on his background as a corporate controller, CPA, educational
psychologist, and instructional technologist, Bonk offers unique insights into
the intersection of business, education, psychology, and technology. A
well-known authority on emerging technologies for learning, Bonk reflects on
his speaking experiences around the world in his popular blog, TravelinEdMan.
In 2014, he also was named the recipient of the Mildred B. and Charles A.
Wedemeyer Award for Outstanding Practitioner in Distance Education. He has
authored several widely used technology books, including The World Is Open,
Empowering Online Learning, The Handbook of Blended Learning, Electronic
Collaborators, and, most recently, Adding Some TEC-VARIETY which is
free as an eBook (http://tec-variety.com/).
His homepage contains much free and open material (http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/) and
he can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana.edu.
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