Social Epistemic Cognition and STEM Learning: What New Evidence Do We Have from MOOC Big Data?

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Dr. Rosanna Yuen-Yan Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Monday 08 June 2015, 16:30-18:00
• Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Ann Waterman.

Social epistemic cognition (SEC) corresponds to human individual’s cognition and cognitive processes related to epistemic matters when situated in a social context. SEC has a tripartite root in social cognition (that connects human beliefs to externally observable behaviors), epistemic cognition (that connects knowledge to human internal attitudes and cognitive processes), and social epistemology (that manifests the social dimensions of knowledge and the epistemic nature of social interactions). Nowadays, massive open online course (MOOC) has become one of the major venues for knowledge acquisition and dissemination. Given its volume, velocity, and variety, data collected from MOOC participants is essentially characterized as big data; which can reveal much information over a large population of online learners. In this seminar, I will discuss some of the recent findings on SEC based on large-scale learning analytics on Khan Academy and Coursera. In particular, I will present a number of patterns identified from STEM subjects MOOC big data, and discuss their implications to STEM learning.

This talk is part of the Mathematics Education Research Group (MERG) series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5
• Mathematics Education Research Group (MERG)
• All Faculty of Education Seminars
• Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)
• Cambridge talks
• Chris Davis' list
• FERSA - All Events
• Interested Talks
• Trust & Technology Initiative - interesting events
• bld31
• ndk22's list
• ob366-ai4er
• rp587

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.