{"id":1434,"date":"2019-03-05T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T11:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2019-03-05T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T11:37:59","slug":"calrg-mooc-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/calrg-mooc-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"CALRG: \u201cMOOC Educators: who they are and how they learn\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cMOOC Educators: who they are and how they learn.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Dr Tina Papathoma, Centre for Policing Research and Learning, The Open University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday 7 March, you are invited to attend a talk by Dr Tina Papathoma, entitled \u201cMOOC Educators: who they are and how they learn. \u201c<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Through detailed case studies on FutureLearn, this research clarifies the different roles and the processes of MOOC educators\u2019 learning. The study has generated new insights into the nature of teaching in MOOCs, and how this is distributed and unbundled. It pays extended attention to the role of the teacher in online education, which has been neglected in much of the research about MOOCs and online education. It extends the use of the \u2018Integrative Pedagogy\u2019 theoretical model into the context of higher education as workplace, and teaching MOOCs as professional development, and shows how this can be used productively in this context to give insights into how educators learn new forms of practice..<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tina\u2019s background is in Education and Educational Technology (BA in Philosophy and Education, MSc in Education, Technology and Society and MRes in Educational Technology). She has successfully passed her PhD viva. Tina currently works as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policing Research and Learning and is involved in a Home Office funded project (collaboration with the Mayor\u2019s Office for Policing and Crime). In this \u2018Implementing Police Transformation in Learning and Development\u2019 project Tina\u2019s role is to investigate the digital learning across police forces in England and Wales, identifying enablers and barriers in its application.<\/p>\n<p>This CALRG presentation will take place in the Ambient Lab, Jennie Lee Building, Thursday March 7, from 11.00 \u2013 12.00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMOOC Educators: who they are and how they learn.\u201d Dr Tina Papathoma, Centre for Policing Research and Learning, The Open University On Thursday 7 March, you are invited to attend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}