Video and course content discussion on Massive Open Online Courses: an exploratory research

Autor: Magali Dubosson, Alexandra Broillet, Constance Kampf, Sabine Emad
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: IPCC
Dubosson, M, Emad, S, Broillet, A & Kampf, C E 2014, Video and Course Context Discussion on Massive Open Online Courses : An Exploratory Research . in Proceedings of the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference 2014 . IEEE Professional Communication Society, pp. 1-5, IEEE, Pittsburgh, United States, 13/10/2014 . https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2014.7020338
DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2014.7020338
Popis: This paper deals with the ways in which Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) participants use course related forums and the contribution of those forums to the learning experience of their virtual students. We focused on the comparison between, on one hand, video content provided by the course organizers and on the other hand, the content provided by user discussions in the forums. Our methodology frame is based on natural sociological inquiry. Video Lectures, as well as the most active forum threads and their posts were collected during a 6 weeks long xMOOC that took place in fall 2013 on a well-known MOOC platform. Content analysis was performed and the study concludes that the forum included a very high level of interactions involving mostly course related exchange of information amongst students, placing this course at the intersection between a constructivist MOOC (cMOOC) and a classical information transmission based MOOC (xMOOC).
Databáze: OpenAIRE