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    Kosten und Wert von MOOCs am Beispiel der Plattform iMooX

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    Dieser Beitrag widmet sich ausgehend von den Erfahrungen aus dem iMooX-Projekt der ökonomischen Perspektive von MOOCs. ZunĂ€chst werden die Kosten eines MOOC anhand des iMooX-Projekts dargelegt. Folgend auf die Darstellung des Kostenmodells erfolgt eine Diskussion, welchen Umfang der reale Wert eines MOOC aufweist. Abschließend werden mögliche Finanzierungsquellen eines MOOC diskutiert

    Fake News im Zeitalter der Social Media

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    Nachrichten, ob sie auf Social Media oder von der konventionellen Presse verbreitet werden, tragen das Risiko, Fake News zu sein. Wie kann unterschieden werden, was wahre oder falsche Nachrichten sind? Gibt es dafĂŒr exakte Kriterien? PrĂ€sident Trump denunziert alles, was die kritische Presse sagt, als „Fake News“. Informationsblasen helfen den Nutzern, in ihrem eigenen Wahrheitsgebilde zu verweilen; Algorithmen zeigen ihnen nur das, was sie interessiert. Wir unternehmen eine systematische Analyse von Fake News und ihrem Inhalt in Relation zur Wahrheit. Wissenschaftliche Literatur zu Fake News und Postfaktischem wurde gesammelt und die darin erkennbaren unterschiedlichen Wahrheitstheorien extrahiert. Daraufhin wurden die Wahrheiten und LĂŒgen in der Literatur ĂŒber Fake News anhand der Wahrheitstheorien interpretiert und herausgearbeitet, wie die Wahrheit in der Literatur dargestellt wird. Die Wahrheitstheorien, die am hĂ€ufigsten prĂ€sentiert wurden, sind die Widerspiegelungstheorie, KohĂ€renztheorie, Konsenstheorie und Evidenztheorie. Die in der Philosophie wichtigste Wahrheitstheorie – die Korrespondenztheorie der Wahrheit – spielt bei den Nachrichten keine Rolle, da sie die direkte Wahrnehmung eines Sachverhalts durch eine Person voraussetzt, was in journalistischen Kontexten nicht gegeben ist. Im empirischen Teil unseres Artikels beschreiben wir eine Umfrage (N = 187), die an der Karl-Franzens-UniversitĂ€t Graz durchgefĂŒhrt wurde, um herauszufinden, als wie glaubwĂŒrdig BeitrĂ€ge in unterschiedlichen Social-Media-KanĂ€len (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest) eingeschĂ€tzt werden. Weiterhin wurde zwischen Bloggern, berĂŒhmten Personen, Unternehmen und Tageszeitungen, Zeitschriften und Magazinen als Verbreiter der Nachrichten unterschieden. Unsere Analyse zu Fake News und ihre Implikationen fĂŒr die Gesellschaft zeigt, dass es keine befriedigende Antwort darauf gibt, was als die Wahrheit angesehen werden kann, da jede Wahrheitstheorie die andere negieren kann. Die Umfrage ergab, dass Tageszeitungen am glaubwĂŒrdigsten erscheinen, gefolgt von Facebook-Posts. Weiterhin werden sowohl YouTube-BeitrĂ€ge von Bloggern und berĂŒhmten Personen als auch Facebook-Nachrichten von Unternehmen als glaubwĂŒrdig angesehen. Alle vorgestellten Lösungen, seien es Algorithmen, das Kontrollieren von Fakten oder Interventionen der Betreiber der Social Media, lassen immer noch die Frage im Raum stehen, was als Wahrheit angesehen werden kann. Auch das Vertrauen in eine Quelle kann manipuliert werden, entweder von Fremden oder den Nachrichtenmedien selbst

    Teaching Internationally, Learning Collaboratively: Intercultural Perspectives on Information Literacy and Metaliteracy (IPILM)

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    Intercultural Perspectives on Information Literacy and Metaliteracy (IPILM) is a discourse- oriented learning environment that engages students from diverse cultural backgrounds to participate in collaborative knowledge construction. The objective is to evolve a thematic approach to course design that includes elements of open pedagogy, information literacy, and metaliteracy. IPILM invites participation from educators and learners from around the world and has witnessed an increase in participating countries. This paper describes the concept of IPILM and demonstrates the implementation of this approach in practice. The initiative was well received by students and is both feasible and sustainable as an intercultural learning endeavor. IPILM is an ongoing project and a work in progress that is an adaptable model which may be transferred to disparate fields of teaching and learning or adopted by international communities of instructors

    Evaluierung des flexiblen Lernbedarfs bei Studierenden – Implikationen fĂŒr die Praxis

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    In der vorliegenden Evaluationsstudie wurden Studierende und Lehrende einer österreichischen UniversitĂ€t befragt, in welchen Bereichen der Lehre sich Studierende eine stĂ€rkere Flexibilisierung wĂŒnschen und inwieweit sich diese WĂŒnsche von der EinschĂ€tzung Lehrender unterscheiden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Studierende und Lehrende in ihren PrĂ€ferenzen zur Lehrveranstaltungsgestaltung zum großen Teil ĂŒbereinstimmen, sich aber auch in einzelnen Bereichen unterscheiden. Insbesondere hinsichtlich einzelner Aspekte von Zeit, Inhalt, Lernressourcen und Support, Beurteilung und Bereitstellung schĂ€tzen Studierende FlexibilitĂ€t bedeutsamer ein als Lehrende. Es zeigen sich hier bedeutsame statistische Effekte

    Development and Evaluation of a MOOC Extension for Teaching Subject-Specific Skills in Information Literacy for Business Administration

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    Information Literacy (IL) is “the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning” (American Library Association, 2016). IL as a social key competence is particularly essential in post-secondary education and research. According to many studies (e.g. Katz, 2007; Rubinić et al., 2013), student’s information literacy levels are generally low. IL also includes subject-specific skills; e.g. relevant resources are different among disciplines (Johnston & Webber, 2003; Bundy, 2004). Analyses show the need for an attractive tutorial which can be developed on a broad basis of available material. Accordingly, an extension to a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for developing information literacy focusing on higher education students shall be developed and evaluated, that focuses on information skills needed in Business Administration. MOOCs are online courses with no entry barriers open for unlimited participation (van Treek et al., 2013)

    Information Literacy Online

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    Creating a multilingual MOOC content for information literacy: a workflow

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    A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online space for learning with no prerequisites for entry. All content is delivered online and learners interact with the content by navigating through it, assessing their progress, writing down their knowledge, and sometimes interacting with other students. The European project Information Literacy Online is an example of a MOOC. It has a number of set goals: it should teach the basics of information literacy to undergraduate students, it should offer study in six European languages, it should deliver content that can be re-used, it should be used mostly by self-paced learners who Progress at their own speed through the content, and subsequently assess and see their progress as they go. The aim of this paper is to discuss how to build a multilingual MOOC in a location-independent and distributed collaboration scenario. The Project requirements have shaped a content creation process, an authoring workflow, which we present in this paper. While the MOOC is delivered on the OpenEdX platform, the authoring workflow is centered around a versioning system which has allowed quality control processes, automated transformation processes, and the contribution of content from multiple places to occur in an asynchronous manner. This paper describes the workflow, sketches the technical choices made in the process, the issues encountered and their workarounds and Reports on the experience gained thus far. (DIPF/Orig.

    Il comportamento informativo durante la pandemia da Covid-19: le differenze tra gli utenti sudamericani e tedeschi nella fruizione dei media, la loro fiducia nella fornitura delle informazioni e la gestione della disinformazione

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    Durante i periodi di crisi, la tipologia di informazione di cui le persone hanno bisogno e che esse richiedono differisce a causa del contesto e della situazione personale in continua evoluzione. Il Covid-19 rappresenta una crisi mondiale, una pandemia. GiĂ  dopo i primi casi di Covid-19 si Ăš sentita la necessitĂ  di maggiori informazioni. Le persone di tutto il mondo stanno vivendo un momento nuovo e difficile, caratterizzato da ansia, insicurezza e sofferenza. La totalitĂ  dei media e dei canali sta fornendo informazioni sulla situazione, sui comportamenti da seguire, nonchĂ© consigli sulla salute e sugli interessi delle persone. Questa quantitĂ  di informazioni possibili puĂČ provocare un sovraccarico informativo che in cambio determina un effetto in termini di rifiuto delle informazioni. Tuttavia, anche le fake news e le teorie complottiste ottengono sempre piĂč attenzione. È necessario capire in che modo le persone nelle diverse parti del mondo cercano e valutano le informazioni.Questo studio propone un primo confronto tra la percezione e il comportamento degli individui di diversi paesi nel periodo di diffusione del Covid-19. Tutti i paesi condividono alcuni aspetti durante la crisi sanitaria globale, ma ci sono anche grandi differenze: «[
] each country has its unique political and social systems that affect information behavior and environments». Pertanto, nell’ambito del presente studio che segue quello di Dreisiebner, MĂ€rz e Mandl, attraverso un questionario online, Ăš stato chiesto a persone della Germania e del Sud America di dare una risposta in merito alla loro fiducia nella trasmissione delle informazioni, al comportamento di ricerca delle informazioni, all’utilizzo dei media e alla gestione delle fake news durante la pandemia da Covid-19. Oltre alle differenze tra i paesi, vengono studiati i cambiamenti comportamentali degli individui.During crises, the kind of information, people need and require differ due to a changing environment and personal situation. Covid-19 represents a worldwide crisis, a pandemic. Already after the first Covid-19 cases occurred, more information was required. People all over the world are experiencing a new and difficult time which is formed by anxiety, insecurity, and passion. All media and channels are providing information about the situation, regulation, health advice, and personal interests. This amount of possible information can lead to information overload which in return has an effect towards information avoidance. However, also fake news and conspiracy theories get more and more attention. It is necessary to understand how people seek and evaluate information in different parts of the world.This study provides a first comparison of individuals’ perception and behavior due to Covid-19 from different countries. All countries share aspects during this global health crisis, but there are also big differences: «[
] each country has its unique political and social systems that affect information behavior and environments». Therefore, as a follow up study to Dreisiebner, MĂ€rz, and Mandl, individuals from Germany and South America were asked through an online survey about their information provision confidence, information seeking behavior, media usage and handling of fake news during Covid-19. Furthermore, besides differences between the countries, behavioral changes are investigated

    Kosten und Wert von MOOCs am Beispiel der Plattform iMooX

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    Dieser Beitrag widmet sich ausgehend von den Erfahrungen aus dem iMooX-Projekt der ökonomischen Perspektive von MOOCs. ZunĂ€chst werden die Kosten eines MOOC anhand des iMooX-Projekts dargelegt. Folgend auf die Darstellung des Kostenmodells erfolgt eine Diskussion, welchen Umfang der reale Wert eines MOOC aufweist. Abschließend werden mögliche Finanzierungsquellen eines MOOC diskutiert
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