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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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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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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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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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Anders, Abram; McGreal, Rory; Conrad, Dianne

Initial research on learning in massive open online courses (MOOCs) primarily focused participation patterns and participant experiences. More recently, research has addressed learning theories and offered case studies ...

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Saadatmand, Mohsen; Kumpulainen, Kristiina; Ilsley, Paul

This dissertation focuses on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) which have emerged and heralded as new online learning environments able to serve large numbers of students. Identifying two main types of MOOCs known as ...

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Bozkurt, Aras

The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to identify interaction patterns and teacher-learner roles in connectivist massive open online courses (MOOCs). To accomplish this purpose, mixed method and the explanatory ...

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Skiba, Diane J.

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Saadatmand, Mohsen; Kumpulainen, Kristiina

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are growing exponentially in higher education. They have attracted the attention of higher education institutions, course designers, and policy makers. They challenge the mainstream ...

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