Abstract
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) present challenges for individual student self-efficacy and relational communities of learners. Faucault’s concept of the “heterotopia” is examined as a lens of the no-place place by which barriers between the individual and the community are called into question as seemingly disparate concepts. Contextually mitigated with Freire’s “problem-posing” and Siemens’ “connectivism,” it is further argued that self-efficacy and relational community are congruous and dependent entities which provide insight to the future of digital architecture.
Date of this Version
6-2013
Recommended Citation
Willis, James E. III, "MOOCs and Foucault’s Heterotopia: On Community and Self-Efficacy" (2013). Teaching and Learning Technologies Publications. Paper 5.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/idcpubs/5
Comments
This paper was first presented at the Sixth International Conference of MIT's Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) which was held June 16-19, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The final paper can be found at the following conference link under Session #3: The Worldwide Development of MOOCs.