ERIC Number: EJ1285100
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-1743-9884
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In between Hyperboles: Forms and Formations in Open Education
Learning, Media and Technology, v46 n1 p60-77 2021
Captured under the umbrella term Open Education, a wide range of educational initiatives has been popping up in the educational landscape. This study aims to offer empirical ground for understanding how Open Education introduces new forms of education. It does so by focusing on one initiative, namely the Interactive Open Online Courses included in the Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange. Social topology is taken up as a theoretical vantage point, with a dedicated focus on infrastructuring practices. The empirical accounts show how infrastructures stabilize "forms" of practices, while interplays with infrastructuring practices enact "formations," i.e., constantly changing practices. The study finally discusses these interplays, labeled as bouncing and enfolding, as "typical" to this Open Education initiative. The study concludes by emphasizing how studying this initiative through a social topological lens enabled a position "in between" positive and negative hyperboles on Open Education, and how this allowed theorizing this movement in terms of continuity and change.
Descriptors: Open Education, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Methods, Large Group Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Practices, Social Influences, Topology, Foreign Countries, Teleconferencing, Electronic Mail, Higher Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: European Union; Europe
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