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TY - CONF
T1 - Being social or social learning
T2 - A sociocultural analysis of the FutureLearn MOOC platform
AU - Tubman, Philip
AU - Oztok, Murat
AU - Benachour, Phillip
PY - 2016/7/22
Y1 - 2016/7/22
N2 - MOOC environments seem to offer massive potential for social learning. However, MOOC environments have unique challenges for pedagogy which are not present in other socio-constructivist learning environments: the scale and diversity of participation. Many points of view are accessible, but few means of filtering. This paper examines interaction data from several MOOCs. Interaction data is an indicator for depth of learning in the sociocultural sense. Most conversations are seen to have surface level interactions. Platform and pedagogy affordances are suggested that may help deal with this.
AB - MOOC environments seem to offer massive potential for social learning. However, MOOC environments have unique challenges for pedagogy which are not present in other socio-constructivist learning environments: the scale and diversity of participation. Many points of view are accessible, but few means of filtering. This paper examines interaction data from several MOOCs. Interaction data is an indicator for depth of learning in the sociocultural sense. Most conversations are seen to have surface level interactions. Platform and pedagogy affordances are suggested that may help deal with this.
KW - MOOC
KW - Social Learning
KW - Vygotsky
KW - End User Development Environments
M3 - Poster
ER -