2. Why MOOC??
“In completely rational society, the best of us would
aspire to be teachers, and the rest of us would have
to settle for something less”_____ Lee Lacocca
3. What is a MOOC?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc
Anant Agarwal: Why massively open online courses
(still)
matter//https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYwTA5R
A9eU
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4. Contents… Lets get to it now!!
What is a MOOC?
The Chronicle of Open Learning
Brief History of MOOCs
Types of MOOCs
Hot Issues in MOOCs
Participating in or building MOOCs
Discussion
5. Characteristics… Hooked??
No submission of assignments or examinations
Scale of numbers – no participation limit
No formal entry requirement
Virtual Learning Environment is not the center of the
course
Use a variety of (new) social media and online tools
Accommodative and engages
Increased student participation and self-direction
Facilitators create the environment not way of learning
J Green 2015
6. MOOC TypesC X
Academics, Non profits,
Individuals
Major Universities
Constructivist, Connectivist
approach
Behaviourist, Cognitivist approach
Many-to-many (Dialogue,
Peer2Peer interactions)
One-to-many (Student/Content,
Teacher/Student interactions)
Informal learning More formal learning
Collaborative, peer assessment Coordinated assessments and quizzes
(often automated)
Rich social media Social media used
Drive towards openness Open to join, but not all content
Network building, collaboration Organised group work
Ad hoc learner space Fixed Platform
J Green (2015)
7. Benefits and Downsides
Benefits Downsides
• Able to organise a MOOC in
any setting with connectivity
• Use any online tools that are
relevant
• Use your own devices
• Work across time zones and
boundaries
• Connect across disciplines
and institutions
• Do not need a degree to
enter
• Improve lifelong learning
skills
• Feeling of chaos
• Demands digital literacy
• Demands self-directed learning
capacity
• Requires time and effort (often
more than expected)
• Possible steep learning curve
• Technology can distract from
learning purpose and content
8. Empowers… unlock the abilities!
Openness
Business
Models
Quality
Completion Certification Privacy
Pedagogy Impact
9. Now the fundamentals of it….
Provide opportunities and capacity for lifelong learning
Learner-centred processes and encourage active
engagement leading to independent and critical thinking
Flexible provision, allowing learners to increasingly
determine where, when, what and how they learn, as well
as the pace
Prior learning and experience is recognised
Conditions created for a fair chance of learner success
through learner support, contextually appropriate
resources and sound pedagogical practices
10. Business Models…..
Certification – pay for badge or certificate
Secure assessments – pay for proctored exams
Recruitment – employers pay for access to records [Privacy]
Marking – students pay for markers or tutoring
Platform sales – sell platform to institutions
Third party Sponsorships
Tuition fees
Publishers – reach new readers and sell more books
11. Quality and Completion
University brand does not equal teaching and learning
quality
Elite institutions gained reputations in research
Importance of Quality Assurance criteria
Improving rate of course and degree completion
Require not just access but access to success
Example: MIT’s Circuits and Electronics Course
155 000 registrations, 23 000 did the first problem set, 7157 passed
MOOC <10% completion is disastrous
But includes the curious and the tourists
12. Certification and specialities
Mostly, success in a MOOC does not lead to credit
but to a certificate
Elite institutions define quality by numbers of
applicants that they exclude, not after admission
Certificates can be traded for credit but very
expensive
13. Pedagogy
Linked to a learning strategy (costs, resources)
Interactive content design and feedback
Safe learning environment with guidelines
Clear learning pathways
Roles of facilitators and tutors
Extent of learner support, assessment and
feedback
Match to technical infrastructure (technology
should not be a distractor)
14. More benefits… Still not hooked??
MOOCs may encourage development of eLearning
MOOCs will not address the challenge of
expanding higher education in the developing
world
However it will…
Access to technology
Independent learning and study skills
15. Considering a MOOC….
http://www.mooc-list.com/
http://www.openculture.com/free_certificate_courses
16. Being Successful in a MOOC
http://popenici.com/2013/08/21/shmoocs/#!
1.
Orient
• Tools
• Materials
• Times
• Links
2.
Declare
• Thoughts
• Blog
3.
Network
• Connect
• Comment
• Discuss
4.
Cluster
• Communit
y
• Small
network
5.
Focus
• Motivation
• Goals
17. Considerations before rolling out a
MOOC
1. Build upon what you know and have
2. Make sure there is a need (purpose)
3. Estimate online tools and audience devices/connectivity
4. Overall design and selection of core resources
5. Choose media carefully
6. Option of accreditation
7. Copyright and intellectual property
8. Create room for emergence (added content, shared expertise)
9. Create strong learning environment (including technology)
10. Get your course known to people
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19. Reflections on MOOCs
Impact on the high costs of higher education
Extent of the “presence of the teacher”
In experimentation phase, changes lie ahead
Keeps continuous focus on teaching and pedagogy
Reassessment of the intellectual quality and rigour
of institutions
Emergence of institutions and commercial
partners
20. Suggestions for using MOOCs
• Use MOOC with local tutorials / groups as
supplementary
• May be physical groups offline
Blended Approach
• Use as central focus
• Plan other activities / assessment / etc
• Use as a collection of OER – extract what you need for
your purpose and context
Core Approach
21. My field of interest
1. I'm interested in social development, relationships
and communications
2. I'm also interested writing, prose and poetry
22. My topic…..?
My topic is going to be communications and social
developments
My second to pic is going to be Writing and linguistics
I will be studying and developing my communication
skills and accommodative language. I will also
developing my writing and literature skills
24. References and available online
courses
Popenici, S (2013). MOOCs and The Change of Higher
Education. http://popenici.com/2013/08/21/shmoocs/#!
Saide (2012). Empowering Learners through Open Learning.
[CC-BY] http://www.saide.org.za/design-guide/11-open-learning
Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online
education//https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6FvJ6jMGHU
Anant Agarwal: Why massively open online courses (still)
matter//https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYwTA5RA9eUslid
ePaper Towns | John Green |
TEDxIndianapolishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mUDw0
sRZV0
hare.net/oerafrica/the-
Notas do Editor
The Educational Technology buzzword of 2012 and 2013
Salmon (2013) - learners demanding their own choices and pathways, following their own motivations not those of providers
MOOC = Massive amounts of people register for a course situated in an open and online environment
Smith “in an xMOOC you watch videos, in a cMOOC you make videos”
Reality is many more types of MOOCs
Others (Donald Clark): transfer Moocs (take existing course and moocify it where focus is transferring knowledge from teacher to students); synchMOOCs with defined timeframes/deadlines, where asynchMOOCs are looser in terms of deadlines; adaptiveMOOCs – aim to personalise epxeriences driven by analytics; groupMOOCs or projectMOOCs: add small collaborative (sometimes physical) groups
Is it still open if you have to pay for it? Even a nominal fee would reduce interest dramatically
How do MOOCs stack up against these principles?
Who owns the data?
Is it still open if you have to pay for it? Even a nominal fee would reduce interest dramatically
Business models still in the development stage
People already had the content knowledge = successful
Learner support is required for success - remain on the course
Learner expectations matching what is promised in the course
Is the issue of certification important now and will it be in the future?
Link to openness
Do MOOCs help us to answer the large scale question? What examples of success? What does success mean? e.g. certificate
Need to define prior learning and experience to succeed
One of the biggest issues with *some* MOOCs is their use of traditional face-to-face transmission of knowledge and not using what we have learnt about elearning over the past 20+ years
Bates (2012) Formal education should be “developing and fostering such abilities so that learners can participate meaningfully in MOOCs and other forms of self-learning.”
Sink or swim / flexible offering may suit the 1st world, and a small proportion of people in Africa, but not the average developing country learner for whom access to education is very precious
Link to Salmon model, particularly to Stage 1: guidance on use of tools
Purpose – include purpose and who you are added
Who is the audience of the course? And what is their context? This will inform your choice of course mode – one option that may emerge is a MOOC – but what is the motivation for wanting to deploy the course via a MOOC
Not only learner expectations – but what is the intention of the provider – other than the learning intention
3 presences: Social, Teacher, Cognitivisit – evident in MOOCs? 3 presences – is that part of an old paradigm? – is it still relevant? – has the balance between the 3 presences changed(if so, how)?
Rather look at MOOCs as learning opportunities for learners at a particular level (possibly post-graduate), providing the necessary requirements
To always bear in mind for learning: What is your purpose? Who is your learner group?
Other readings: Salmon (2013) MOOOCs, Butcher (2013) OERs and MOOCs: Old Wine in New Skins?
Anything by Stephen Downes and George Siemens
http://www.moocresearch.com