ABSTRACT
Evident in the closing chapter is that the present examination of the MOOC and OER landscape across the Global South has proved to be filled with innovation, progress, and success, but many future opportunities and challenges are also equally apparent. Directing attention at how big data, AI, and data analytics can contribute to a more comprehensive analysis and accounting of education change and impact, the authors encourage readers to take up the challenge and become innovators, chroniclers, or participants in the burgeoning Global South OER ecology. Guidance for those undertakings is provided by way of positing predictions that will characterize and influence future OER-based endeavors. The key takeaway for the four chapter authors and book editors, Tom Reynolds, Tom Reeves, Curt Bonk, and Ke Zhang, is that the current edited volume offers hope and optimism for the future of OER across the Global South and beyond. Although warranted, such optimism is dependent upon the continuation and further expansion of the trends and insights established in the stories and analyses of the 68 contributors to this book.
