Print Email Facebook Twitter Supporting urban change Title Supporting urban change: Using a MOOC to facilitate attitudinal learning and participation in smart cities Author Hudson, Lorraine (Open University; University of Bristol) Wolff, Annika (Open University; Lappeenranta University of Technology) Gooch, Daniel (Open University) Van Der Linden, Janet (Open University) Kortuem, G.W. (TU Delft Internet of Things; Open University) Petre, Marian (Open University) ten Veen, Rianne (Open University) O'Connor-Gotra, Sinead (Open University) Date 2019 Abstract Smart cities try to use technology and data to improve the efficiency of city services, to address societal challenges and to improve collaboration between citizens and government. Driving such social change requires a deep socio-ecological transition with both organisations and individual's lifestyles needing to change. This has led to an increasing recognition of the need for education to empower people to play a more active role within smart city initiatives. This paper examines our use of a MOOC as a tool to facilitate attitudinal learning around the topic of smart cities and to explore whether the learners engage in local smart city activities. A mixed methods research design was employed, collecting data via an online survey that was completed by 202 learners and through in-depth interviews with 8 of those learners. The results show that learners’ perceived high levels of attitudinal learning on the topic of smart cities across four categories of learning outcomes (general, cognitive, affective and behavioural). Our findings also contribute to an understanding of the types of post-course activities learners participate in and their experiences of trying to apply what they learnt if they participated in local smart city activities. We conclude by providing new insights into how to design for learning to support social change in the context of a MOOC. Subject Distance education and telelearningEvaluation methodologiesLearning communitiesLifelong learning To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a2e7cec7-bf1f-415b-810e-d1d09ee23a91 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2018.10.012 Embargo date 2022-05-03 ISSN 0360-1315 Source Computers & Education, 129, 37-47 Bibliographical note Accepted author manuscript Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 Lorraine Hudson, Annika Wolff, Daniel Gooch, Janet Van Der Linden, G.W. Kortuem, Marian Petre, Rianne ten Veen, Sinead O'Connor-Gotra Files PDF Manuscript_SC_MOOC_revise ... ct2018.pdf 385.55 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a2e7cec7-bf1f-415b-810e-d1d09ee23a91/datastream/OBJ/view