The MOOC Guide The purpose of this document is two-fold: - to offer an online history of the development of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - to use that history to describe major elements of a MOOC Each chapter of this guide looks at one of the first MOOCs and some early influences. It contains these parts: - a description of the MOOC, what it did, and what was learned - a description of the element of MOOC theory learned in the offering of the course - practical tools that can be used to develop that aspect of a MOOC - practical tips on how to be successful Contribute to this Book You are invited to contribute. In order to participate, please email or message your contact details, and we'll you to the list of people who can edit pages.
Gilly Salmon "Professor Gilly Salmon has been a digital learning innovator for more than 20 years. She was the was a founding director of All Things In Moderation, in 2001. She was appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor of Learning Transformations at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia in January 2012. She speaks, researches and publishes widely on the themes of innovation and change in higher education and the exploitation of new technologies of all kinds in the service of learning. She is internationally renowned for her significant contributions to online education, including research, innovation, programme design, teaching methods and the use of new technologies. Prior to her Swinburne appointment, Professor Salmon was Executive Director and Professor (Learning Futures) at the Australian Digital Futures Institute, University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Bibliography[edit] Books Salmon, G. (2013). Book Chapters Salmon, G. (2011). Journal Articles Salmon, G., & Angood, R.
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Wilfred Rubens: technology enhanced learning Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger and communities of practice contents: introduction · communities of practice · legitimate peripheral participation and situated learning · learning organizations and learning communities · conclusion · references · links · how to cite this article Many of the ways we have of talking about learning and education are based on the assumption that learning is something that individuals do. Furthermore, we often assume that learning ‘has a beginning and an end; that it is best separated from the rest of our activities; and that it is the result of teaching’ (Wenger 1998: 3). But how would things look if we took a different track? Supposing learning is social and comes largely from of our experience of participating in daily life? Jean Lave was (and is) a social anthropologist with a strong interest in social theory, based at the University of California, Berkeley. Communities of practice In some groups we are core members, in others we are more at the margins. The characteristics of communities of practice References
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