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SUMMARY:Social Epistemic Cognition and STEM Learning: What New Evidence Do
  We Have from MOOC Big Data? - Dr. Rosanna Yuen-Yan Chan\, The Chinese Uni
 versity of Hong Kong
DTSTART:20150608T153000Z
DTEND:20150608T170000Z
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:Social epistemic cognition (SEC) corresponds to human individu
 al’s cognition and cognitive processes related to epistemic matters when
  situated in a social context. SEC has a tripartite root in social cogniti
 on (that connects human beliefs to externally observable behaviors)\, epis
 temic cognition (that connects knowledge to human internal attitudes and c
 ognitive processes)\, and social epistemology (that manifests the social d
 imensions of knowledge and the epistemic nature of social interactions). N
 owadays\, massive open online course (MOOC) has become one of the major ve
 nues for knowledge acquisition and dissemination. Given its volume\, veloc
 ity\, and variety\, data collected from MOOC participants is essentially c
 haracterized as big data\; which can reveal much information over a large 
 population of online learners. In this seminar\, I will discuss some of th
 e recent findings on SEC based on large-scale learning analytics on Khan A
 cademy and Coursera. In particular\, I will present a number of patterns i
 dentified from STEM subjects MOOC big data\, and discuss their implication
 s to STEM learning.\n\n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DM
 B\, Room GS5
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