Merging MOOC and mLearning for Increased Learner Interactions
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOBILE AND BLENDED LEARNING, cilt.4, sa.4, ss.34-46, 2012 (ESCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 4 Sayı: 4
- Basım Tarihi: 2012
- Doi Numarası: 10.4018/jmbl.2012100103
- Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOBILE AND BLENDED LEARNING
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.34-46
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Collaborative Learning, Massively Open Online Course (MOOC), Mobile Learning (mLearning), Mobile Massively Open Online Course (MobiMOOC), Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Anadolu Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
In this paper, the authors suggest the merger of the Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) format and mobile learning (mLearning) based on mutual affordances of both contemporary learning/teaching formats to investigate learner interactions and dialogues in an open online course. The paper presents a case study of how MobiMOOC, a course created using the MOOC format, demonstrates the synergistic characteristics between the MOOC format and mLearning, making a combination of both fields ideal for contemporary, digital, collaborative learning, and knowledge construction based on learner interactions and dialogue. MobiMOOC was a six-week online course focusing on mLearning that ran in April and May 2011. An endof-course survey provides insight that supports the synergies between MOOCs and mLearning: collaboration, informal and lifelong learning, and dialogue.