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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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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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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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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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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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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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Smith, Becky; Eng, Min; Cheung, Simon K. S.; Fong, Joseph; et al.

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have been radically changing the direction of online education in the last few years. Although sharing many common features, there has been an emergence of two distinct varieties of ...

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Milligan, Colin; Littlejohn, Allison; Margaryan, Anoush

Connectivist massive open online courses (cMOOCs) represent an important new pedagogical approach ideally suited to the network age. However, little is known about how the learning experience afforded by cMOOCs is ...

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