The document discusses community MOOCs and their pedagogical approach of encouraging active learning, content creation, and community building through connectivism, curation, and heutagogy. It emphasizes using universally available and familiar mobile platforms to combine the technical and pedagogical benefits of MOOCs with learner empowerment. Key aspects discussed include selecting tools like Google Docs and YouTube to host content, curating content and communities through metadata like search terms and languages, and building participation through feedback, progression of learner roles, and ground rules set with community input.

1. Community MOOCs – Back to
Basics, Back to the Future
John Traxler

2. The Principles

3. Pedagogic approach is derived from
connectivism, curation and heutagogy,
Pedagogic approach aims to encourage
active learning, content creation,
community building, critical participation,
digital literacy and lifelong learning.

4. The technical approach is to exploit
a flexible combination of
universally available, highly familiar, mobile-accessible
‘free’ and ‘open’ platforms

5. This approach combines
the technical and pedagogic scalability of the MOOC with
learner empowerment and agency,
and cultural flexibility and sensitivity within
the relevant constraints of infrastructure, access and connectivity.

6. The Pioneer

7. MobiMOOC

8. The Practice
A work in progress

9. Key Heuristics
• Selecting Tools
• Creating Navigation & Structure
• Curating Content
• Curating Communities
• Building Participation

10. Curating Content
• Search terms
• Look back period
• Language
• Culture
• Emergent/stable/established/volatile
• Culturally/socially /institutionally/politically specific
– Essentially metadata

11. Curating Communities
• How big
• How active
• How stable
• How consensual
• How formal
• Closed?
• Balance of opinion and fact
• Hierarchical or peer or moderated
• Nature of transactions - resources, opinions,
ideas, information

12. Building Participation
• Etiquette – ground rules with community input
• Ratings & reviews – positive feedback
– Copy Amazon, TripAdvisor, Wikipedia, iTunes, Good
Reads…
• Use what learners already have, already know,
already use, already like
• Progression from peripheral novice learner
consuming content and needing structure to
expert participant creating structure and content

13. Building Participation

14. Selecting Tools
• Elgg, Joomla,Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress: host
communities, resources and profiles
– practicalities: choose open vs closed, choose moderation or not
• Google Docs, SlideShare, Dropbox, Flickr, YouTube, Panopto, Acrobat Cloud: host
content and reviews
• Easychair: peer review and rating
• Zotero, Scoop.It, Flipboard, Pulse, Evernote, Pinterest, Google Currents, Diigo:
curates external content and/or local content
• Hangouts, Twitter, Skype, Adobe Connect, Slack, Basecamp: connects learners
• Survey Monkey, Socrative: facilitates quizzes, surveys and feedback
• Trello, SimpleMind+: helps learners manage learning, individually and in groups
• Prezi, QuickOffice, Kingsoft Office, Sliderocket: facilitates the creation of learner
content
• Google, Bing, Google Scholar: finds content and communities
• Doodle, Evenbrite: coordination

15. Thanks
John.traxler@wlv.ac.uk
@johntraxler