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Tom Mackey, Ph.D.
Dean, Empire State College
#metaliteracy
UPCEA Mid-Atlantic 2013 Regional Conference
Strategic Approaches to Using MOOCs
October 9, 2013
10:30-11:45 am
“Designing a Connectivist
to Promote Collaborative Learning”
MOOC

2. “The starting point of connectivism is the
individual. Personal knowledge is comprised of a
network, which feeds into organizations and
institutions, which in turn feed back into the
network, and then continue to provide learning to
individual. This cycle of knowledge
development (personal to network to
organization) allows learners to remain current in
their field through the connections they have
formed.”
George Siemens
Connectivism:
A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

3. “In a connectivist MOOC, people get out of it what
they put into it,” said Stephen Downes of the
National Research Council of Canada, a pioneer
of the early MOOCs. “It’s something like a Yahoo
group or other interest-based community. But it
has a start date and an end date, and it pulls
people out of different networks and plops them
into a new one, which results in new connections
and gets people hearing new voices.”
"Online Mentors to Guide Women Into the Sciences”
TAMAR LEWIN
September 16, 2012

4. “In a connectivist MOOC, people get out of it what
they put into it,” said Stephen Downes of the
National Research Council of Canada, a pioneer
of the early MOOCs. “It’s something like a Yahoo
group or other interest-based community. But it
has a start date and an end date, and it pulls
people out of different networks and plops them
into a new one, which results in new connections
and gets people hearing new voices.”

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First MOOC in SUNY System
Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager

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First MOOC in SUNY System

7. http://youtu.be/Stnfj9HFbzw

8. Creativity and Multicultural
Communication
• 492 registered participants
• 14 Registered for credit
• 13 undergraduates and 1 grad student completed
• 111 registered participant blogs
• 996 blog posts.
• 136 tweets
• 36 discussions
• Facebook group started by participants still active
Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager
Thanks to Carol Yeager for all MOOC data

9. Participant Feedback
• “Thank you, CMC11, I never would have started a blog
without you (I always kind of thought they were silly),
but I’m really starting to enjoy this and see it as a
creative outlet! So I guess the class has been quite
successful for me!”
• “It felt effective and comfortable for me to work
collaboratively with others through a combination of
different Web tools”
• “I LOVED this course! … What an eye opening and
invigorating course ... Hope there are many to come!”
Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager
Thanks to Carol Yeager for all MOOC data

10. Creativity and Multicultural
Communication
• CMC11 continues for Independent Study credit and for
open participation
• New speakers & original recordings; Google+ Hangouts
• Several international, non CDL participants join the
Google+ Hangouts
• 354 participants currently registered for the newsletter
• 33 students registered to the MOOC for credit since the
original offering
• 4 students currently in progress
• 15-20 original participants continue to contribute
Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager
Thanks to Carol Yeager for all MOOC data

11. http://math.cdlprojects.com/
Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager

12. VizMath MOOC
• Only offered Fall 2012
• 88 registered participants (none for credit)
• 8 blogs registered with 4 blog posts
• no longer active (stopped Dec 2012)
• All presentation sessions are available on You Tube and
have had many viewings and downloads
Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager
Thanks to Carol Yeager for all MOOC data

13. Connectivist MOOC 2013
SUNY Empire State College and the
University Libraries, University at Albany
MOOC
#metaliteracy
Mackey, Thomas P. and Trudi E. Jacobson “Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy”
College & Research Libraries. January 2011 72:62-78. http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.full.pdf

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Figure by Roger Lipera
Mackey and Jacobson (2013)
Metaliteracy manuscript

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Figure by Roger Lipera
Mackey and Jacobson (2013)
Metaliteracy manuscript

16. • “promotes critical thinking and collaboration in
a digital age.”
• “comprehensive framework to effectively
participate in social media and online
communities”
• “unified construct that supports the acquisition,
production, and sharing of knowledge in
collaborative online communities.”
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Mackey, Thomas P. and Trudi E. Jacobson “Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy”
College & Research Libraries. January 2011 72:62-78. http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.full.pdf

17. • “is more than descriptive; it identifies how
learners critically evaluate and understand
their knowledge as individuals and
participants in social learning environments. ”
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Mackey and Jacobson (2013) Metaliteracy manuscript

18. http://metaliteracy.cdlprojects.com

21. http://metaliteracy.cdlprojects.com
MOOC

22. MOOC
http://metaliteracy.cdlprojects.com/week1.htm

23. Blackboard Collaborate Session

24. MOOC
• 488 registered participants
• 68 blog registrations
• 434 Newsletter subscriptions
• Students from 3 Information Literacy Courses
at the University at Albany
• 1 Graduate Student at Empire State College
Thanks to Carol Yeager for all MOOC data

25. MOOC
• Research Survey
• “How does the Metaliteracy MOOC support
collaborative/connectivist learning?”
• 31 questions (mostly Likert Scale and open
ended)
• Next MOOC idea: International Education (Dr.
Val Chukhlomin)

26. Tom Mackey, Ph.D.
Dean, Center for Distance Learning
SUNY Empire State College
Tom.Mackey@esc.edu