#IRRODL : Why the #chaos of #MOOC s and #mlearning will be a benefit to #education in the long run

To all of us who think education is stressed for change, this paper on using mLearning and MOOCs to understand chaos, emergence, and complexity in education is a collaborative effort to embrace chaos in new educational formats (MOOC, mLearning) to come to a new educational balance... in the end.

The paper focuses on MOOCs and mLearning and links it to connectivism in order to suggest that these new formats of education have their chaotic side, but ... the chaos which accompanies these new educational formats will eventually result in a new educational balance (well... you cannot blame us for thinking BIG :-D

So to all the MobiMOOC research team: congratulations: +Michael Sean Gallagher, +nilgün keskin +Sean C. Abajian +Rebecca Hogue +Osvaldo Rodriguez +Apostolos Koutropoulos +Ignatia/Inge de Waard (I am really grateful to be part of such a dynamic and diverse group!).

The article was published just this weekend in the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Leanring (IRRODL), vol 12, No 7 (2011): which is a Special Issue on Emergent Learning, Connections, Design for Learning. There are many other great articles in it.

Table of Contents

Editorial

	Editorial: Volume 12, Number 7	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Rod Sims, Elena Kays	i-vi

Research Articles

	Designing for learning: Online social networks as a classroom environment	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Gail Casey, Terry Evans	1-26

	Pointillist, cyclical, and overlapping: Multidimensional facets of time in online education	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Pekka Ihanainen, John Moravec	27-39

	Emergent learning and interactive media artworks: Parameters of interaction for novice groups	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Marta Kawka, Kevin Larkin, Patrick Alan Danaher	40-55

	Aligning the quantum perspective of learning to instructional design: Exploring the seven definitive questions	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Katherine Joyce Janzen, Beth Perry, Margaret Edwards	56-73

	A pedagogy of abundance or a pedagogy to support human beings? Participant support on massive open online courses	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Rita Kop, Hélène Fournier, John Sui Fai Mak	74-93

	Using mLearning and MOOCs to understand chaos, emergence, and complexity in education	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Inge de Waard, Sean Abajian, Michael Sean Gallagher, Rebecca Hogue, Nilgün Keskin, Apostolos Koutropoulos, Oscar C. Rodriguez	94-115

Research Notes

	"Chaos rules" revisited	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	David Murphy	116-134

	Emergent, self-directed, and self-organized learning: Literacy, numeracy, and the iPod Touch	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Carlo Antonio Ricci	135-146

Book Notes

	Book review - Telecollaboration 2.0: Language, literacies and intercultural learning in the 21st century	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Nataly Tcherepashenets