TY - JOUR
T1 - Content is King
T2 - An analysis of how the twitter discourse surrounding open education unfolded from 2009 to 2016
AU - Paskevicius, Michael
AU - Veletsianos, George
AU - Kimmons, Royce
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Athabasca University.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Inspired by open educational resources, open pedagogy, and open source software, the openness movement in education has different meanings for different people. In this study, we use Twitter data to examine the discourses surrounding openness as well as the people who participate in discourse around openness. By targeting hashtags related to open education, we gathered the most extensive dataset of historical open education tweets to date (n = 178,304 tweets and 23,061 users) and conducted a mixed methods analysis of openness from 2009 to 2016. Findings show that the diversity of participants has varied somewhat over time and that the discourse has predominantly revolved around open resources, although there are signs that an increase in interest around pedagogy, teaching, and learning is emerging.
AB - Inspired by open educational resources, open pedagogy, and open source software, the openness movement in education has different meanings for different people. In this study, we use Twitter data to examine the discourses surrounding openness as well as the people who participate in discourse around openness. By targeting hashtags related to open education, we gathered the most extensive dataset of historical open education tweets to date (n = 178,304 tweets and 23,061 users) and conducted a mixed methods analysis of openness from 2009 to 2016. Findings show that the diversity of participants has varied somewhat over time and that the discourse has predominantly revolved around open resources, although there are signs that an increase in interest around pedagogy, teaching, and learning is emerging.
KW - Open education
KW - Open educational resources
KW - Open pedagogy
KW - Social media research
KW - Temporal analysis
KW - Twitter
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U2 - 10.19173/irrodl.v19i1.3267
DO - 10.19173/irrodl.v19i1.3267
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042506620
SN - 1492-3831
VL - 19
SP - 116
EP - 137
JO - International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
JF - International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
IS - 1
ER -