2. Making and Managing MOOCs:
A cutting-edge digital learning strategy
An Experience from the Udder-side
Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
Computers in Education Society of Ireland Conference
1st March 2014
Galway
6. About Mark…
As you can probably tell I’m from…
• Qualified primary teacher
• Previous Editor of journal CNZS
• Past President of NZ Association for Open,
Flexible and Distance Learning
• Director, National Centre for Teaching and
Learning, Massey University
14. Competing mindsets…
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn,
good and ill together...”
William Shakespeare,
All's Well That Ends Well, Act 4, Scene 3
18. Basicassumptions...
The rise of the MOOC is intertwined deeply with
globalisation, the dominance of neoliberalism, the expansion of digital
capitalism, and decline of influence of the
nation-state.
19. 1. What is Open2Study?
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21. 1. What is Open2Study?
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23. 2. Why did Massey join Open2Study?
• Enhance reputation
• Profile signature platforms
• Promote Massey to international students
24. 2. Why did Massey join Open2Study?
• Enhance reputation
• Profile signature platforms
• Promote Massey to international students
• Enhance student retention by selecting the right course
• Promote student readiness – learning to be an online learner
25. 2. Why did Massey join Open2Study?
• Enhance reputation
• Profile signature platforms
• Promote Massey to international students
• Enhance student retention by selecting the right course
• Promote student readiness – learning to be an online learner
• Help shape the digital platform and the learning design model
• Learn from the experience – innovation
27. 3. What courses did Massey develop?
Initially three online subjects…
• Agriculture and the World Around Us
• Emergency Management
• Indigenous Cultures
40. Contact details…
Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
mark.brown@dcu.ie
@mbrownz
http://www.slideshare.net/mbrownz
Notas do Editor
Firstly we have greatly underestimated that educational technology is a contested terrain. This rather simplistic representation shows how digital learning is torn between competing mindsets: boosters, doomsters, deschoolers and toolsters. Arguably most educators see technology as ‘just another tool’, which is hardly a disruptive metaphor. My own position is one of critic as I’m always trying to understand the good and the bad of any new technology.
To quote Shakespeare, “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...”This observation brings me to the second point. There has been a basic failure to understand the character of pedagogical innovation and the complexities of the change process.
Course starts this coming Monday So far 789 learners have registered for the course Completion rates for Open2Study courses are currently around 60% of people who start the course And around 25% of all registered people complete the course