A Phenomenology of Learning Large: The Tutorial Sphere of xMOOC Video Lectures

Autor/inn/en	Adams, Catherine; Yin, Yin; Vargas Madriz, Luis Francisco; Mullen, C. Scott
Titel	A Phenomenology of Learning Large: The Tutorial Sphere of xMOOC Video Lectures
Quelle	In: Distance Education, 35 (2014) 2, S.202-216 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0158-7919
DOI	10.1080/01587919.2014.917701
Schlagwörter	Online Courses; Large Group Instruction; Class Size; Distance Education; Student Attitudes; Phenomenology; Teacher Student Relationship; Video Technology; Lecture Method; Learning Experience; Learner Engagement; Academic Persistence; School Holding Power; College Students; College Faculty; Student Journals; Endowment Funds + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Online course; Online-Kurs; Klassengröße; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Schülerverhalten; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Lernerfahrung; Collegestudent; Fakultät; Studentenzeitung; Stiftungsvermögen
Abstract	The current discourse surrounding Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is powerful. Despite their rapid and widespread deployment, research has yet to confirm or refute some of the bold claims rationalizing the popularity and efficacy of these large-scale virtual learning environments. Also, MOOCs' reputed disruptive, game-changing potential for education remains unsubstantiated. A sober counterbalance is needed, in particular, via attending to students' everyday accounts of the complex realities of learning in these massive online courses. This article reports on an exploratory, phenomenological study of the xMOOC learning experience. Our interest was not the xMOOC experience of students in general, but in its singular, "lived" particularities. What we discovered was a unique and intimate tutorial sphere that seemed to develop for some xMOOC students in the context of the video lectures, an experience sometimes marked by a sense of fandom surround. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10