Usynlige studerende i åbne online forløb
Nye muligheder for efteruddannelse
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The objective of the paper is to examine different kinds of participation in open online courses with a specific focus on participants who are seemingly inactive and possibly drop out during the course. In the paper, this group is termed invisible students. The paper begins with an overview review of key literature within "open education" and the tradition of offering education to people with limited access to the traditional educational system. The paper is based on a qualitative study including 11 interviews and 51 questionnaire responses. The analysis identifies five different kinds of participation in an online course: students, participants, members, observers and visitors. In the analysis, the paper examines what and how invisible students learn in open online courses. The analysis identifies a number of key activities for invisible students: reading and watching content, following and being part of, participating in networks, reflecting, and utilising. Finally, the analysis shows that inspiraton, being updated and getting input for your own practice are key objectives for the invisible students in the online course. The results indicate that there are opportunities for developing new further education formats that can add value to invisible students’ own context - without determining the learning objectives.
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