La rinascita delle comunità di apprendimento in rete

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Pubblicato: Dec 31, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17471/2499-4324/186
Parole chiave:
Tecnologie didattiche, IT, Massive Open Online Course, MOOC, Online learning community, Open courses, Comunità di pari, Learning Analytics, Tecnologie per l'apprendimento

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Stephen Downes
National Research Council Canada, Moncton, New Brunswick

Abstract

In questo contributo Stephen Downes affronta la questione di come i “Massive Open Online Courses” (MOOCs) influenzeranno il futuro della formazione a distanza. L’autore considera in dettaglio la natura e lo scopo di un MOOC, rispetto a un corso tradizionale di formazione a distanza, e sostiene che i MOOC rappresentano la rinascita dell’apprendimento attraverso le comunità (di rete); inoltre descrive in quale modo le istituzioni che si occupano di formazione a distanza condivideranno tra di loro i MOOC, potenziando l’interazione in rete e mettendo disposizione risorse e servizi. Downes descrive inoltre il fenomeno dei ‘wrapped MOOCs’1 riportando diversi esempi di supporto locale ai MOOC globali. L’autore analizza alcune implicazioni valide per il mondo della formazione a distanza non parlante inglese e, a questo proposito, delinea alcune strategie ed esempi d’uso dei MOOC per promuovere le diversità linguistiche.

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V. 22 N. 3 (2014): TD63 - Dossier: Learning Analytics
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Articoli - Argomenti vari

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