Very interesting qualitative analysis framework offered by Patrick J. Tierney, Brock University, Canada, in December 2012 issues of IRRODL.
I did not get through the entire article to say that I fully comprehend it but the coding method described seemed to resemble the three stages we have gone through as qualitative analysts of dialogue in CPSquare.
Article in MindShift, KQED, April 24, 2012 by Nathan Miton.
Fabulous because it recognizes that content is one leg of learning stool.
Excerpt:
But at such a huge scale, what are the digital methods of teaching that work best? Philipp Schmidt, founder of the free online university P2PU, preaches three building blocks: community, recognition and content.
Endorsement of peer learning potential
Excerpt:
The Stanford professors readily admit that some of the students who participated in their online courses provided their peers with deeper, more comprehensive answers than they were able to.
The exponential explosion in opportunities for learning.
Excerpt:
in the past 10 years I've heard people say campus-based education better look out, that this will be threatening to their business model, and I've never really felt that until the last six months. The pace of change in open education is qualitatively different than it was even a few months ago."
A new breed of digital pedagogy/andragogy/heutagogy
Excerpt:
"We probably haven't fully made the transition to digitally native pedagogies and learning approaches," Carson said. "The first generation of distance learning is basically an attempt to move the classroom online, and I think that part of the scalable learning of these massive courses is the breakdown of that model."