Exploring dimensions of change: the case of MOOC conceptions |
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| Authors: | Cormac McGrath Terese Stenfors-Hayes Torgny Roxå Klara Bolander Laksov |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;2. Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden;3. Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | This paper addresses a relatively new phenomenon in higher education, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and explores conceptions around this new and emerging development from the perspective of a number of stakeholders in the university. A phenomenographic approach is adopted. The study explores how different stakeholders at a university perceive the MOOC phenomenon, and reflects on how the many conceptions stakeholders adhere to are made meaningful for academic developers in their role as ‘partners in arms’. The conceptions run across a continuum from the local and narrow to the global and broad. The study identifies challenges to change agency in a higher education institution. |
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| Keywords: | MOOC conceptions change agents |
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