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Bell, Frances; McGreal, Rory; Conrad, Dianne

The sociotechnical context for learning and education is dynamic and makes great demands on those trying to seize the opportunities presented by emerging technologies. The goal of this paper is to explore certain ...

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Ozturk, Hayriye Tugba; McGreal, Rory; Conrad, Dianne

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) came to prominence with Open Educational Resources Movement (OERM). It was based upon the idea of libre in removal of some permission barriers and gratis in removing the price barrier ...

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Tschofen, Carmen; Mackness, Jenny; McGreal, Rory; Conrad, Dianne

Connectivism has been offered as a new learning theory for a digital age, with four key principles for learning: autonomy, connectedness, diversity, and openness. The testing ground for this theory has been massive open ...

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Siemsen, Sabine; Jansen, Rainer; Uden, Lorna; Sinclair, Jane; et al.

Knowledge is not 'a thing' and not a mere pool of data which can be managed. Knowledge is the process of learning. So what really matters is the question of how the process of learning changes in context with Social ...

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Downes, Stephen

Connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks. The bulk of this work is devoted to ...

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Mercado-Varela, Martin Alonso; Beltran, Jesus; Perez, Marisol Villegas; Vazquez, Nohemi Rivera; Ramirez-Montoya, Maria-Soledad

The role of facilitators in distance learning environments is of substantial importance in supporting the learning process. This article specifically discusses the role of the facilitator in Massive Open Online Courses ...

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Ebben, Maureen; Murphy, Julien S.

The rapid rise of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) signals a shift in the ways in which digital teaching and learning are engaged in and understood. Drawing upon a comprehensive search of nine leading academic ...

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García Espinosa, Brenda Jeanett; Tenorio Sepúlveda, Gloria Concepción; Ramírez Montoya, María Soledad

This article attempts to answer the questions: What are the challenges, problems and obstacles of involving less self-motivated students in MOOCs and how do they relate to their learning connectivism? The correlations ...

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Cook, Vickie

Learners of all ages and stages today engage in learning online. Students learn everywhere and may be connected to a learning source at any time. Teaching and learning online are about making the necessary connections ...

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Knox, Jeremy

While education has been both open and online, the sizeable enrolment numbers associated with massive open online courses (MOOCs) are somewhat unprecedented. In order to gauge the significance of education at scale, ...

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