Micro-ethnography: Reading distantly, reading deeply

My micro-ethnogaphy of the e-Learning 3.0 cMOOC feels as though it’s still stuck grappling with some methodological questions of how we can actually apprehend and then conceptualise the messiness of so many human and non-human actors and their agential relationships.

Connectivism and its discontents

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