Discussion Forums in MOOCs

摘要: Discussion forums in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) represent a unique opportunity for insight into the formation of learning communities. Discussions are locus MOOC’s social experience and forum space testing ground instructor presence. In MOOCs, global scale peer-to-peer contact represents network cross-cultural sharing collaborative problem-solving, relationship that generates experts to scaffold novice’s (Anderson, A. (Ed.) (2008). Theory practice online . Edmonton, AB. Athabasca Press). How learners acquire build upon prior knowledge sets, them with others discussion forums, contributes robustness As extant literature suggests, accelerates content acquisition, providing diverse approach intellectual inquiry based construction meaning. This paper outlines framework diagnosing scaffolding on contextual patterning MOOC forums.