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Surfacing Collective Intelligence with Implications for Interface Design in Massive Open Online Courses

Authors : Anna Zawilska, Marina Jirotka, Mark Hartswood

Published in: Social Collective Intelligence

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The massive open online course (MOOC) has gained significant popularity in the last few years, garnering enrolment rates usually in the order of tens of thousands of teenagers and adults [16].With so many people congregating online to learn, harnessing the enrolled learners’ social collective intelligence (SCI) becomes a very real possibility. Moreover, the sorts of learner-leaner and learner-platform interactions needed to realise the MOOC as an SCI platform align strongly with educational paradigms such as constructivism [9];lending a pedagogical plausibility to using MOOCs in this way. Our study aims to capture how learners actively make the learning content within a MOOC relevant to their personal concerns. An analysis of 670 qualitative responses to an open-ended question in a live MOOC titled ‘Internet History, Technology, and Security’ [6]provides some understanding of the ‘relational work’. This helps us conceive of MOOC interface designs which simultaneously support SCI. With few theories existing which concern SCI and MOOCs, our empirical study is timely.

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Metadata
Title
Surfacing Collective Intelligence with Implications for Interface Design in Massive Open Online Courses
Authors
Anna Zawilska
Marina Jirotka
Mark Hartswood
Copyright Year
2014
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08681-1_9