2 research outputs found
MOOCs @ Edinburgh 2013: Report #1
A report summarising the experience of the University of Edinburgh of offering our first 6 massive open online courses (MOOCs) in partnership with Courser
Digital culture clash: āmassiveā education in the E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC
While education has been both open and online, the sizeable enrolment numbers
associated with massive open online courses (MOOCs) are somewhat unprecedented.
In order to gauge the significance of education at scale, this article analyses
specific examples of massive participation derived from E-learning and
Digital Cultures, a MOOC from the University of Edinburgh in partnership with
Coursera. Student-created content, user statistics, and survey data are illustrated
to examine the experiences and repercussions of engaging with educational
activity where participants number in the tens of thousands. This activity is
shown to mirror established instructionist or constructivist approaches to pedagogy.
However, rather than working with āmassiveness,ā these positions are suggested
to oppose large participant numbers. Concluding remarks propose an
irreducible diversity of participation, rather than a generalised categorisation of
āstudent,ā and call for future considerations of the MOOC to move beyond individualism
and self-interest