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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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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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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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Kop, Rita; Carroll, Fiona

This paper explores cloud computing and how it might advance learning and teaching, particularly in terms of social creativity and collaborative learning. We present a study of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – a ...

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Mak, Sui Fai John; Williams, Roy; Mackness, Jenny; Dirckinck-Holmfeld, L.; et al.

This paper presents the findings of research carried out into the use of blogs and forums as communication and learning tools in Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK08), a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that ...

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Fournier, Helene; Kop, Rita; Durand, Guillaume

Over the past five years, the emergence of interactive social media has influenced the development of learning environments. Learning management systems have come to maturity, but because they are controlled by ...

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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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Laaser, Wolfram

The paper summarizes the actual debate about “massive open online courses” (MOOC), a concept that swept over like a “Tsunami” to European educators and universities since its first development in 2008. The ...

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