It was like a little community
An ethnographic study of online learning and its implications for Moocs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5948426 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christina Wasson (University of North Texas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 2013 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 186-199 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings (CONFERENCE) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1559-890X • E-ISSN: 1559-8918 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1559-8918.2013.00017.x |
| OpenAlex | W2056502766 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
In this time of social, technical, educational and industrial upheaval, time and space are being compressed and stretched as social actors develop new practices in response to shifts in their lived experience. In the American educational sector, these phenomena have crystalized in the meteoritic rise of MOOCs, massive open online courses. The story of their ascent weaves together neoliberal shifts in financing education, technology developments, and perceived business opportunities. MOOCs have captured the imagination of the business press, venture capitalists, and university leaders. However, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the perceptions of students who are taking online courses - in other words, the users. Drawing on an ethnographic study of a small online class, this paper describes the limitations of MOOC pedagogies by comparison with low-enrollment online courses, and concludes by casting doubt on the effectiveness of MOOC learning experiences as well as MOOC business models
Class (philosophy · Ethnography · Multimedia · Online learning · Pedagogy · Perception · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · E-Learning and Knowledge Management · Online and Blended Learning · Online Learning and Analytics · Psychology
Anthropology and autobiography
Critical thinking, cognitive presence, and computer conferencing in distance education
Analysis of a Global Online Debate and the Development of an Interaction Analysis Model for Examining Social Construction of Knowledge in Computer Conferencing
Economies of Signs and Space
Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the United States
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Ethnography in the Field of Design
Making Sense of Moocs
Designing the First Online Master's Program in Applied Anthropology
The Whys and Hows of an Online Applied Anthropology Program
Human-Machine Reconfigurations
The condition of postmodernity
Talking about machines
Making History at the Frontier
Reconstructing Technologies as Social Practice
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |