Conceptualizing Formal and Informal Learning in MOOCs as Activity Systems
November 1, 2017
Kathlyn Bradshaw, Algonquin College, Canada
This CIDER session considers formal and informal learning activities in massive open online courses (MOOCs). MOOCs are often broadly positioned as either cMOOCs (based on connectivistic pedagogies) or xMOOCs (based on cognitivistic/behaviouristic pedagogies). This presentation provides findings from an in situ case study - examining an emergent, hybrid MOOC design - focused on establishing the presence of both formal and informal learning activities in a network-based hybrid approach to MOOC design. The establishment of these two activity systems extended to include opportunities for boundary crossings between them. An outcome is a cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT)-informed model that extends commonly used and recognized MOOC typologies.
SIMILAR SESSIONS
Using Third Generation Activity Theory and Contradictions to Analyse Qualitative Data
Murphy, Elizabeth; Rodriguez, Maria; Dodd, Charlene; Kerr, Brian
Match: activity theory
LOOCs: Sustainable Open Education for a Small University
Snow, Kathy; Brann-Barrett, M. Tanya
In 2014 CBU launched its first formal test of the Open education through a course called "Learning from the knowledge Keepers". This course surpassed all of our expectations, going viral and within a few weeks of ...
Match: MOOC
Social Presence in Two Massive Open Online Courses: Results from a Doctoral Study
Stranach, Matthew
In this session, the author will share research from his 2017 doctoral study on social presence in two MOOCs. The purpose of this study was to explore the role social presence plays within two Massive Open Online ...
Match: MOOC
A Study of Teachers’ Informal Learning in the Workplace
Hoekstra, Annemarieke
This presentation focuses on the research perspective and methodology of two studies, conducted in the Netherlands, which were aimed at describing how experienced secondary school teachers learn at work in an informal ...
Match: informal learning