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Dron, J., & Ostashewski, N. (2015). Seeking Connectivist Freedom and Instructivist Safety in a MOOC. Educación XX1, 18,2.
Abstract: Many MOOCs rely on instructivist pedagogies, in which teaching follows a top-down transmission model. Whether they follow a behaviourist, cognitivist or constructivist path, teachers guide or dictate activities as well as provide information that learners use in learning. In most cases, learners are not treated as sources of knowledge but as recipients or, at best, constructors of it. This is a waste of the vast pools of skills and knowledge that inevitably exist in any large collection of learners and is diametrically opposed to the principles behind earlier but now less commonplace connectivist MOOCs (cMoocs). Such cMOOCs, at least in principle, benefit from scale – they gain value the more people there are engaged in them because, though they coalesce around shared events and resources that resemble the instructivist patterns of publication, learners generate and design their own learning paths, discussing, debating, sharing their learning in rich networks and clusters of networks. As part of a strategy to explore different approaches to MOOC delivery, we developed a site using the Elgg social media framework in order to attempt to gain benefits of social sharing to support learning. Participating in the Digital Age, a six-week Australian MOOC (PDA MOOC), self-referentially was concerned with learning to be a digital citizen while using participatory tools to do so. In this paper we report on the theoretical foundations of the design, its technical implementation, and the benefits and disadvantages of the approach when the course was run.
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Dron, J. (2016). How to demotivate students. EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2016, 1, 1043–1050.
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Ostashewski, N., Reid, D., & Dron, J. (2013). Scaffolds not handcuffs: Bringing Social Media into the Instructional Design Mix. EdMedia 2013, .
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Anderson, T., Dron, J., & Mattar, J. (2013). Três Gerações De Pedagogia De Educação A Distância. EAD em FOCO, 2(1), 119–134. [Impact factor: (Trad.)]
Abstract: Este artigo define e examina três gerações de pedagogia de educação a distância. Ao contrário de classificações anteriores de educação a distância, baseadas na tecnologia utilizada, esta análise centra-se na pedagogia que define as experiências de aprendizagem encapsuladas no design da aprendizagem. As três gerações de pedagogia, cognitivo-behaviorista, socioconstrutivista e conectivista, são examinadas utilizando o conhecido modelo de comunidade de investigação (GARRISON; ANDERSON; ARCHER, 2000), com foco nas presenças cognitiva, social e de ensino. Embora essa tipologia de pedagogias possa também ser aplicada com proveito na educação presencial, a necessidade e a prática de abertura e de explicitação do conteúdo e do processo em educação a distância tornam o trabalho especialmente relevante para os designers, professores e desenvolvedores de educação a distância. O artigo conclui que a educação a distância de alta qualidade explora as três gerações em função do conteúdo de aprendizagem, do contexto e das expectativas de aprendizagem [1]. ----------------------------------------------- [1] Tradução autorizada de: ANDERSON, Terry; DRON, Jon. Three generations of distance education pedagogy. IRRODL – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, v. 12, n. 3, 2011. Special Issue – Connectivism: Design and Delivery of Social Networked Learning, p. 80-97.
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Dron, J. (2014). Ten Principles for Effective Tinkering. E-Learn World Conference on E-Learning 2014, .
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