Participant Association and Emergent Curriculum in a MOOC: Can the Community Be the Curriculum?

Frances Bell; Jenny Mackness; Mariana Funes

Research in Learning Technology Vol. 24, No. 1 (2016)

We investigated how participants associated with each other and developed community in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) about Rhizomatic Learning (Rhizo14).We compared learner experiences in two social networking sites (SNSs), Facebook and...

The rhizome: A problematic metaphor for teaching and learning in a MOOC

Jenny Mackness; Frances Bell; Mariana Funes

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 32, No. 1 (Mar 23, 2016)

Deleuze and Guattari’s principles of the rhizome were used to inform the design of a massive open online course (MOOC), Rhizomatic Learning: The Community is the Curriculum, which came to be known as Rhizo14. In a previous paper about learner...

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