2012
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v13i1.1143
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Connectivism and dimensions of individual experience

Abstract: <p>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 online courses (MOOCs). As the number of MOOC offerings increases, interest in how people interact and develop as individual learners in these complex, diverse, and distributed environments is growing. In their work in these environments the authors have observed a growing tension betw… Show more

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“…MOOCs are a specialized form of online education (OE). They are massive for enrollment numbers that dwarf comparison to traditional courses (Tschofen & Mackness, 2012). They are open both for access to courses and for a learning environment emphasizing flexible interaction between participants and content resources (Rodriguez, 2012;Tschofen & Mackness, 2012).…”
Section: Overview Of Moocsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…MOOCs are a specialized form of online education (OE). They are massive for enrollment numbers that dwarf comparison to traditional courses (Tschofen & Mackness, 2012). They are open both for access to courses and for a learning environment emphasizing flexible interaction between participants and content resources (Rodriguez, 2012;Tschofen & Mackness, 2012).…”
Section: Overview Of Moocsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They are massive for enrollment numbers that dwarf comparison to traditional courses (Tschofen & Mackness, 2012). They are open both for access to courses and for a learning environment emphasizing flexible interaction between participants and content resources (Rodriguez, 2012;Tschofen & Mackness, 2012). MOOCs are free to the enrolled, but do incur costs requiring subsidy decisions by sponsors (Cusumano, 2013;Vardi, 2012).…”
Section: Overview Of Moocsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The MOOCs' underlying technology is recent, the first MOOC having been launched in 2008 [Ahlberg 2014] and [Fini 2009]. In 2011 there was a 'wave of offers' of MOOCs platforms [Tschofen and Mackness 2012], and, at the present, HEIs are offering a growing variety of MOOCs [Yousef et al 2015], using different platforms, being Coursera and EdX the most widely used ones [Kim 2015].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%