The emerging pedagogy of MOOCs, the educational design of technology and practices of study

Thomas Storme1, Nancy Vansieleghem1, Steven Devleminck2, Jan Masschelein3, Maarten Simons3
1LUCA School of Arts, Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
2LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
3Laboratory for Education and Society, KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgium

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During the last years, MOOCs (massive open online courses) are part of the most discussed developments in educational technology. MOOCs swept the landscape of educational technology in no time. However, through all this enthusiasm, it is difficult to see the contribution of MOOCs to computer-based education. Even though there is a surge in MOOCs as well as in MOOC-research, it is unclear how an effective MOOC-pedagogy can be developed. What is this MOOC-phenomenon? And how can we, as educators, teachers, pedagogues, educational researchers, develop MOOC-pedagogy? In the first part of this paper, we’ll start with an overview of the MOOC-phenomenon. In the second part, we’ll discuss the implicit philosophical attitudes towards educational technology that underlies much of the MOOC-debates. We then argue that, rather than a theoretically grounded approach to educational technology, common sense attitudes of essentialism and instrumentalism prevail. In the last part of the paper, we suggest to concentrate on the educational design of technology and on the development of practices of study necessary to deal with technology, in order to develop a meaningful educational practice.

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