Presentation given to the ALT Scotland SIG 20th June 2013 outlining the general MOOC platform ecosystem including 'MOOC platform as a service' from Coursera et al., and home grown solutions aligned to connectivist principles using WordPress. The talk highlights some of the particular features of the ALT ocTEL platform which uses WordPress with a number of existing plugins like FeedWordPress, bbPress, MailPress and theme customistion to create an agile course platform
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ALT’s ocTEL MOOC experience: Designing the platform
1. ALT’s ocTEL MOOC experience: Designing the platform
Creating your own open online course using WordPress
Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey)
Linda Creanor
Grainne Hamilton (@grainnehamilton)
http://bit.ly/octelweb5
2. The hinterland
The platform
The experience
Open to general discussion/Q&A
What/how
8. “revolutionising
conventional
models of formal
education.”
“a transformational
new partnership in
online education.”
“Higher
education is
broken with
increasingly
higher costs for
both students and
our society at
large.”
"Higher
education is
ripe for
innovation: it is
too expensive
and limited to a
few"
Adapted from David Kernohan, 2013
MOOCs As a service
9. “BlackBoard
CourseSites:
Move your courses
online free”
“Pearson OpenClass:
Break through to
learning at scale”
“Instructure Canvas:
Open online learning,
as defined by you”
platform As a service …
(which might be used for a
mooc)
Adapted from David Kernohan, 2013
10. http://mashe.hawksey.info
Open Source bespoke
MOOC platforms
“XBlock is a component
architecture for building
courseware.”
“the software and technology
we used to build our Power
Searching with Google online
course
32. MailPress (Add-ons)
*Newsletter Newsletters : for posts
*Sync_wordpress_user Users :
synchronise with WordPress users
*Tracking_ga Tracking : mails activity to
your site with google analytics
*Batch_send Mails : Send them in batch
mode