TY - GEN
T1 - Open education in the wild
T2 - 18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015
AU - Ahn, June
AU - Webster, Sarah
AU - Butler, Brian S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/2/28
Y1 - 2015/2/28
N2 - The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online, open education platform where any user can create a course, contribute content, or join an existing course as a learner. P2PU represents an experiment in organizing the production of entirely user-generated, open education. However, the open model of P2PU rests on the critical assumption that members can successfully coordinate and produce a sufficient supply of courses and motivate others to join in. In this paper, we use log data from P2PU to describe the dynamics of organizers-members who try to produce and launch open courses-and explore the factors related to their ability to successfully create courses on this open platform. We find that a critical predictor of successful course development is quickly finding likeminded organizers to collaborate with, suggesting that creating new education systems based on open, social computing platforms requires facilitation of key aspects of social coordination beyond providing platform and content resources.
AB - The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online, open education platform where any user can create a course, contribute content, or join an existing course as a learner. P2PU represents an experiment in organizing the production of entirely user-generated, open education. However, the open model of P2PU rests on the critical assumption that members can successfully coordinate and produce a sufficient supply of courses and motivate others to join in. In this paper, we use log data from P2PU to describe the dynamics of organizers-members who try to produce and launch open courses-and explore the factors related to their ability to successfully create courses on this open platform. We find that a critical predictor of successful course development is quickly finding likeminded organizers to collaborate with, suggesting that creating new education systems based on open, social computing platforms requires facilitation of key aspects of social coordination beyond providing platform and content resources.
KW - Open learning
KW - computer supported cooperative work.
KW - open education
KW - social computing
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U2 - 10.1145/2675133.2675292
DO - 10.1145/2675133.2675292
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84957819834
T3 - CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
SP - 1896
EP - 1905
BT - CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 14 March 2015 through 18 March 2015
ER -