"... an analysis of Twitter usage surrounding a German-language MOOC that could indicate future trends in technology-enhanced learning. Our research focuses on the Twitter stream accompanying the course and ask how Twitter is used and for what purposes by the heavy twitter users, by the educators / organisers / guestspeakers in the course and if tweets from “outside” get into to the stream.."
Reference: van Treeck, T., Ebner, M. (2013) How Useful Is Twitter for Learning in Massive Communities? An Analysis of Two MOOCs. In: Twitter & Society, Weller, K., Bruns, A., Burgess, J., Mahrt, M., Puschmann, C. (eds.), Peter Lang, p. 411-424
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Figuring out how the pieces that you cobble together to create a MOOC actually work. Read this and make your own decisions about whether Twitter should be part of your MOOC sandwich.
Use of TWitter within MOOCS - expect more of this to come. Rather detailed and reviews two German Language MOOCs. Some ideas on how Twitter can be applied to on campus classes