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MOOCs: Where Next?
George Siemens
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning Vol. 2013, No. 1 (Oct 21, 2013)
E-Learn 2013 Symposium
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Blurring Roles: Participation Trends in Media and Education
George Siemens
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning Vol. 2008, No. 1 (Nov 17, 2008)
Ours is an era of active involvement and participation. Technically, tools are now readily available for increased engagement in media and learning. Participation opportunities allow for greater closeness: readers to authors, gamers to game creators,...
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Inquiry into the structure and roles of open online courses and online communities
George Siemens; Valerie Irvine
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1439–1444
In this paper, the authors analyze online communities and the recent development of open online courses (OOC) offered by traditional universities. Using the community of inquiry framework, the roles of educators and learners/participants are...
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Virtual Learning Commons: Designing a Social University
George Siemens; Peter Tittenberge
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3782–3789
The Virtual Learning Commons (VLC) is a project initiated by the Learning Technologies Centre at the University of Manitoba, in response to the changing interests and needs of learners entering higher education. Learning, conceived as a social...
Topics: Networking Technologies, Integration, Educational Technology
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The Open Course: Through the Open Door--Open Courses as Research, Learning, and Engagement
Dave Cormier; George Siemens
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 45, No. 4 (2010) pp. 30–32
Over the last decade, as educators have increasingly experimented with social technologies and interactive pedagogies, the concept of a "course" has been significantly challenged. In particular, questions have arisen as to the key value of the...
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Penetrating the fog: analytics in learning and education
Phillip Long; George Siemens
Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 22, No. 3 (Dec 31, 2014) pp. 132–137
Nell\u2019era di Internet, delle tecnologie mobili e dell\u2019istruzione aperta, la necessit di interventi per migliorare l\u2019efficienza e la qualit dell\u2019istruzione superiore diventata pressante. I big data e il Learning Analytics possono...
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Analytics to literacies: The development of a learning analytics framework for multiliteracies assessment
Shane Dawson; George Siemens
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 15, No. 4 (Aug 15, 2014)
The rapid advances in information and communication technologies, coupled with increased access to information and the formation of global communities, have resulted in interest among researchers and academics to revise educational practice to move...
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Ethical and privacy principles for learning analytics
Abelardo Pardo; George Siemens
British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 45, No. 3 (May 23, 2014) pp. 438–450
The massive adoption of technology in learning processes comes with an equally large capacity to track learners. Learning analytics aims at using the collected information to understand and improve the quality of a learning experience. The privacy...
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Monogrfic L'impacte de les xarxes socials en l'ensenyament i l'aprenentatge. Introducci: L'ensenyament superior i les promeses i els perills de les xarxes socials
George Siemens; Martin Weller
RUSC. Universities and Knowledge Society Journal Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan 11, 2011)
En l'ltima dcada s'ha produt una enorme innovaci en la manera com les persones es connecten en lnia les unes amb les altres. Les xarxes socials han experimentat un rpid augment de popularitat i han generat tant preocupacions (confidencialitat,...
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Conference Connections: Rewiring the Circuit
George Siemens; Peter Tittenberger; Terry Anderson
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 43, No. 2 (2008) pp. 14–16
Increased openness, two-way dialogue, and blurred distinctions between experts and amateurs have combined with numerous technology tools for dialogue, personal expression, networking, and community formation to "remake" conferences, influencing not...
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Keynote Debate
George Siemens; Martin Weller; Antonio Dias Figueiredo
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology Vol. 2011, No. 1 (2011)
This house believes that in the next decade, digital scholarship (in open journals, blogs, and social media) will achieve the same status in academic settings as traditional scholarship.
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Let's Not Forget: Learning Analytics Are about Learning
Dragan Gaševic; Shane Dawson; George Siemens
TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 59, No. 1 (January 2015) pp. 64–71
The analysis of data collected from the interaction of users with educational and information technology has attracted much attention as a promising approach for advancing our understanding of the learning process. This promise motivated the...
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What public media reveals about MOOCs: A systematic analysis of news reports
Vitomir Kovanović; Srećko Joksimović; Dragan Gašević; George Siemens; Marek Hatala
British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 46, No. 3 (May 01, 2015) pp. 510–527
One of the striking differences between massive open online courses (MOOCs) and previous innovations in the education technology field is the unprecedented interest and involvement of the general public. As MOOCs address pressing problems in higher...
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Where is research on massive open online courses headed? A data analysis of the MOOC Research Initiative
Dragan Gasevic; Vitomir Kovanovic; Srecko Joksimovic; George Siemens
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 15, No. 5 (Oct 06, 2014)
This paper reports on the results of an analysis of the research proposals submitted to the MOOC Research Initiative (MRI) funded by the Gates Foundation and administered by Athabasca University. The goal of MRI was to mobilize researchers to engage ...
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Where Is Research on Massive Open Online Courses Headed? A Data Analysis of the MOOC Research Initiative
Dragan Gaševic; Vitomir Kovanovic; Srecko Joksimovic; George Siemens
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 15, No. 5 (Oct 06, 2014) pp. 134–176
This paper reports on the results of an analysis of the research proposals submitted to the MOOC Research Initiative (MRI) funded by the Gates Foundation and administered by Athabasca University. The goal of MRI was to mobilize researchers to engage ...
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Developing University Courses with OERs
Griff Richards; Stewart Marshall; Tanya Elias; Diana Quirk; Cindy Ives; George Siemens
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 1069–1073
Open Educational Resources (OER) are curriculum resources that have been purposely made available for free use in other educational contexts. While the concept of OER is attractive and has generated much enthusiasm especially for education in...
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Examining communities of inquiry in Massive Open Online Courses: The role of study strategies
Vitomir Kovanović; Srećko Joksimović; Oleksandra Poquet; Thieme Hennis; Pieter de Vries; Marek Hatala; Shane Dawson; George Siemens; Dragan Gašević
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 40, No. 1 (January 2019) pp. 20–43
This paper examines the discrete learning strategies employed within a massive open online course and their relationship to the student learning experience. The theoretical framework centered on the Community of Inquiry model of online education,...
Language: English
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Exploring communities of inquiry in Massive Open Online Courses
Vitomir Kovanović; Srećko Joksimović; Oleksandra Poquet; Thieme Hennis; Iva Čukić; Pieter de Vries; Marek Hatala; Shane Dawson; George Siemens; Dragan Gašević
Computers & Education Vol. 119, No. 1 (April 2018) pp. 44–58
This study presents an evaluation of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) survey instrument developed by Arbaugh et al. (2008) within the context of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The study reports the results of a reliability analysis and...
Language: English