<p><b>Praise for <i>The World Is Open</i></b></p> <p>“In this epic effort, Dr. Bonk takes the technologies, the concepts, the future and even the past of distance education and synthesizes it into a comprehensible landscape. . . . Masterful!” <p><b>—GLENN R. JONES,</b> chancellor, Jones International University <p>“. . . .This book captures the true potential of technology and open and shared content to eliminate the educational divide. For this reason, <I>The World Is Open</I> is required reading for all participants in the world’s ongoing, technology-led education revolution.” <p><b>—SCOTT MCNEALY,</b> chairman and co-founder, Sun Microsystems and founder, Curriki.org <p>“Curtis Bonk . . . . synthesizes a staggering range of views and tools into one of the widest and most readable overviews yet of the world of open learning starting to envelop all of us.” <p><b>— MARTIN DOUGIAMAS,</b> founder and lead developer of Moodle and executive director of Moodle Pty. Ltd. <p>“As everyone now knows, thanks to Thomas Friedman, the world is flat. And now, thanks to Curtis Bonk, we know that the world of learning is open.” <p><b>—MILTON CHEN,</b> executive director, The George Lucas Educational Foundation, publishers of <I>Edutopia</I> magazine and edutopia.org <p>“Open software and open learning—those two concepts are rocking the world. . . . Bonk has brought together the key ideas underlying this wave of disruption in an engaging and provocative format.” <p><b>—ELLIOT SOLOWAY,</b> Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan and co-founder of GoKnow, Inc.