"How to ruin a MOOC", talk at the London Knowledge Lab's What the Research Says event, 29 Nov, 2014

1. How To Ruin A MOOC*
Lessons learnt from the (not ruined!) OLDS MOOC
LKL What the research says, 29 Nov 2014
slideshare.net/yish/
how-toruinamooc
* OULDI Activity
“How to ruin a course”
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/2597
Yishay Mor, http://yishaymor.org

2. OLDS?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/16240140
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jantik/4808012

3. Olds.ac.uk

5. Design principles
Radically open
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all content OER, no registration required
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Structure and Autonomy
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Daily activities, participants can choose and remix
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Peer support and collaborative learning
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Diverse learning practices
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6. The works
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Google site “spine”
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Google groups for facilitation / discussion
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Cloudworks for “Objects to talk with”
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Participant production, self and peer
assessment
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Participant driver social media
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Badges
flickr.com/photos/orogeny/6973688129

7. http://www.olds.ac.uk/

12. June 2013
(MOOC ended 13th March)

13. Feedback
the ... team here at ... have used a number of the tools &
techniques that I learned about during the OLDS
MOOC. Specifically, we used the Persona & Course Features Cards
during a two-day Design & Development workshop held in late
February.
it has changed
the way that I work and has provided me
with some useful tools and input into an EU educational project I am
involved in. Some of your approaches helped me articulate
problems with the delivery mode we were then trialing,
and have contributed to changing the approach
significantly. In particular the idea of a force map and analyzing the
positions of all the players involved helped change direction and overcome
some resistance to the project which we were encountering.

14. Evaluation & publications
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Mor, Y. & Mogilevsky, O. (2013), Learning design studio:
educational practice as design inquiry of learning 'Scaling up
Learning for Sustained Impact' , Springer, Berlin Heidelberg ,
pp. 233-245
researchgate.net/publication/256841554_Learning_design_st
udio_educational_practice_as_design_inquiry_of_learning
Cross, Simon (2013). Evaluation of the OLDS MOOC
curriculum design course: participant perspectives,
expectations and experiences. OLDS MOOC Project, Milton
Keynes. http://oro.open.ac.uk/37836/
McAndrew, Patrick (2013). Learning from open design:
running a learning design MOOC. eLearning Papers(33)
http://oro.open.ac.uk/37753/

15. And now, how to ruin a MOOC....
(MOOC Anti-Patterns)
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Home-brew technology
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Deep-fried Mars Bar
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Facilitator FOMO / FOFO
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SteamPunking

16. Home-brew technology

17. Deep-fried Mars Bar
By Christian Cable, http://www.flickr.com/photos/nexus_icon/1622353060

18. Facilitator FOMO / FOFO
FoFo = Fu** off and Find out,
Dennis Hayes, TES
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2203188

19. SteamPunking
flickr.com/photos/f7oor/564669765/
flickr.com/photos/65128587@N04/6222498949
flickr.com/photos/gsfc/10461394966

20. Thank You
xkcd.com/519/
Yishay Mor,
http://yishaymor.org
slideshare.net/yish/how-toruinamooc