Thursday, January 5, 2012

Research publications on Massive Open Online Courses and Personal Learning Environments

People interested in Massive Open Online Courses will probably be aware of the research by Helene Fournier and me on Personal Learning Environments and MOOCs. We carried out research in the MOOC PLENK2010 (The MOOC Personal Learning Environments Networks and Knowledge that was held in the fall of 2010). The data collected on this distributed course with 1641 participants has been massive as well. Its analysis has kept us and some fellow researchers busy over the past year. The research has resulted in a number of publications and I thought it might be useful to post links to all of our journal articles, conference papers and presentations that were published  in relation to PLEs and MOOCs in one space. Each publication looks at the data from a different perspective, eg, requirements in a PLE, self-directed learning, learner support, creativity.


Fournier, H., Kop, R., and Durand, G. (2014), Challenges to research in Massive Open Online Courses, Merlot Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Vol. 10, No.1, March 2014
 
Fournier, H., and Kop, R. (2014) De nouvelles dimensions à l’auto-apprentisage dans un environment d’apprentisage en réseau, Association canadienne pour l’étude de l’éducation des adultes
Kop, R., Fournier, H., and Durand, G. (2014, In Press), Challenges to research in Massive Open Online Courses, Journal of Online Learning and Teaching

Kop, R. & Fournier, H. (2014) Developing a framework for research on Personal Learning Environments, Elearning in Europe Journal, Issue No. 35, special Issue on Personal Learning Environments

Kop, R. (2012) The Unexpected Connection: Serendipity and Human Mediation in Networked Learning. (PDF) Educational Technology & Society, 15 (2), 2–11, p. 2-11
http://www.you-learn.org/papers.html

Fournier, H. and Kop, R. (2013) Social and affective presence to achieve quality learning in MOOCs, ELearn 2013 conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 21-24, 2013

Kop, R. (2011) The Challenges to Connectivist Learning on Open Online Networks: Learning Experiences during a Massive Open Online Course. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 12, No 3 (2011): Special Issue - Connectivism: Design and Delivery of Social Networked Learning 

Fournier, H., Kop, R. and Sitlia, H. (2011), The Value of Learning Analytics to Networked Learning on a Personal Learning Environment, 1st International Conference on Learning analytics and Knowledge 2011, Banff, February 27-March 1st, 2011. Paper 14  conference presentation

Kop, R. and Fournier, H. (2011) New Dimensions to Self-directed Learning in an Open Networked Learning Environment, International Journal of Self-Directed Learning, Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 2010, page 1-18  - conference presentation

Kop, R. and Fournier, H. (2011) Facilitating Quality Learning in a Personal Learning Environment through Educational Research, online session at the Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research, May 2011. The link gives access the the Elluminate recording, an Mp3 and Powerpoint slide.

Kop, R., Fournier, H. and Mak, S.F.J. (2011) A Pedagogy of Abundance or a Pedagogy to Support Human Beings? Participant support on Massive Open Online Courses, International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Special Issue - Emergent Learning, Connections, Design for Learning, Vol. 12, No. 7, pg. 74-93

Fournier, H. and Kop, R. (2011) Factors affecting the design and development of a Personal Learning Environment: Research on super-users, in the International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, Volume 2, Issue 4, 12-22, October –December 2011.  conference presentation conference paper

Kop, R. and Carroll, F. (2011) Cloud Computing and Creativity: Learning on a Massive Open Online Course, European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, Special Issue on Creativity and OER

Kop, R. (2010) The Design and Development of a Personal Learning Environment: Researching the Learning Experience, European Distance and E-learning Network Annual Conference 2010, June 2010, Valencia, Spain, Paper H4 32 conference presentation



Some of the background data of participants and the course cause a little overlap in the papers, but we think the diversity of subjects covered in the papers will shed light on the learning experiences on MOOCs and make for a varied tapestry of information on MOOCs. PLENK2010 provided us with rich in data and we are still working on the analysis of the dataset as a whole for a paper on motivation and one on research methods, in collaboration with Guillaume Durand, using some challenging research methods. We will let you know when these papers will be published.

14 comments:

  1. Great list, have read some of these, looking forward to the rest. Here's the bibtex entries for all the publications, if other people want to import them into their reference management systems (I just exported this from BibDesk, there might be some errors):

    @article{fournier2011factors,
    Author = {Fournier, Hélène and Kop, Rita},
    Journal = {International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments},
    Number = {4},
    Pages = {12-22},
    Title = {Factors affecting the design and development of a Personal Learning Environment: Research on super-users},
    Volume = {2},
    Year = {2011}}

    @inproceedings{fournier2011value,
    Author = {Fournier, Hélène and Kop, Rita and Sitlia, Hanan},
    Booktitle = {1st International Conference on Learning analytics and Knowledge 2011, Banff, February 27-March 1st, 2011.},
    Title = {The Value of Learning Analytics to Networked Learning on a Personal Learning Environment},
    Year = {2011}}

    @inproceedings{kop2010design,
    Author = {Kop, Rita},
    Booktitle = {European Distance and E-learning Network Annual Conference 2010, June 2010, Valencia, Spain},
    Title = {The Design and Development of a Personal Learning Environment: Researching the Learning Experience},
    Year = {2010}}

    @article{kop2011challenges,
    Author = {Kop, Rita},
    Journal = {The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning},
    Number = {3},
    Pages = {19--38},
    Title = {The challenges to connectivist learning on open online networks: Learning experiences during a massive open online course},
    Volume = {12},
    Year = {2011}}

    @article{kop2011cloud,
    Author = {Kop, Rita and Carroll, Fiona},
    Journal = {European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning},
    Title = {Cloud Computing and Creativity: Learning on a Massive Open Online Course},
    Volume = {Special Issue on Creativity and OER},
    Year = {2011}}

    @article{kop2011dimensions,
    Author = {Kop, Rita and Fournier, Hélène},
    Journal = {International Journal of Self-Directed Learning},
    Number = {2},
    Pages = {1-18},
    Title = {New Dimensions to Self-directed Learning in an Open Networked Learning Environment},
    Volume = {7},
    Year = {2011}}

    @inproceedings{kop2011facilitating,
    Author = {Kop, Rita and Fournier, Hélène},
    Booktitle = {online session at the Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research},
    Title = {Facilitating Quality Learning in a Personal Learning Environment through Educational Research},
    Year = {2011}}

    @article{kop2011pedagogy,
    Author = {Kop, Rita and Fournier, Hélène and Mak, John Sui Fai},
    Journal = {The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning},
    Number = {7},
    Pages = {74--93},
    Title = {A pedagogy of abundance or a pedagogy to support human beings? Participant support on massive open online courses},
    Volume = {12},
    Year = {2011}}

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