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LearningCircle.io: Lessons Learned from Organising Courses with and without a Dedicated Platform

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Publication date25/06/2018
Host publicationProceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018
Place of PublicationWaynesville NC
PublisherAACE
Pages76-81
Number of pages6
ISBN (print)9781939797346
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Learning Circle is a learning platform designed for communities of civic-minded learners. We present Learning Circle and its evaluation. The platform-based course is compared to a course organised using the same structure but with a loosely-coupled media approach. We base our analysis on a sample of 126 active learners and 32 mentors across 2 courses (from more than 70 different countries). The contribution of this paper is the analysis of trade-offs for using a central custom platform vs. loosely-coupled resources in online learning. The main trade-offs we identified fall within two broad outcome categories: cognitive and social