NDLI: Mentored open online communities (MooCs) as a third space for teaching and learning in higher education

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Mentored open online communities (MooCs) as a third space for teaching and learning in higher education

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Author	O’Byrne, W. Ian Pet, Sue Ringler Silvestri, Katarina Loomis, Stephanie Kist, William
Copyright Year	2017
Description	Online learning environments have been promoted as educational innovations with tremendous potential. Originally framed as massive open online courses (MOOCs), large-scale, open, online learning experiences have gained significant attention under the dichotomised umbrellas of either revolutionising education or failing the schools. To provide a third space for teaching and learning in higher education institutions, modified the original framing of MOOC to develop our own mentored open online community (MooC). This chapter explores a case study of a social media project that evolved around the hashtag #WalkMyWorld and developed into this alternative type of online learning experience. A group of university teacher educators sought to break through dichotomous perspectives by experimenting with a hybrid environment 'removed' but still embedded within face-to-face classes, allowing participants to communicate, socialise and learn in a flexible, open environment. #WalkMyWorld was conceived as a third space to support learners in online spaces, offering a new organisational structure within face-to-face undergraduate and graduate-level education courses. Book Name: Massive Open Online Courses and Higher Education
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Ending Page	150
Page Count	14
Starting Page	137
DOI	10.4324/9781315594248-10
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2017-04-21
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Massive Open Online Courses and Higher Education Economics Structure Walkmyworld Framing Mentored Teaching
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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