The Structure of the Global Classroom · 2016. 7. 5. · STEVE CAYZER, DANISH MISHRA & TRACEY...

The Structure of the

Global ClassroomSTEVE CAYZER, DANISH MISHRA & TRACEY MADDEN

@ S T E V E C AY Z E R @ T R A C E Y M A D D E N

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Acknowledgements

Danish Mishra

Marie Salter

Momna Hejmadi

Emma Emanuelsson

Meet the MOOCs

Making an Impact: sustainability for professionals

• Tending toward ‘cMOOC’

Inside Cancer: how genes influence cancer development

• Tending towards ‘xMOOC’

MOOCs

Massive

Open

Online

Course

Our Global Classroom

Social Network Analysis (SNA)

1SNA ALLOWS US TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE A MOOC

Betweeness

http://www.fmsasg.com/socialnetworkanalysis/

Sustainability MOOC - Jan 2015

2SNA CAN ALLOW US TO STUDY BEHAVIOUR IN A MOOC AND COMPARE IT WITH THE COURSE’S DESIGN INTENSIONS

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Started conversation (responded to acomment)

Subject of conversation (someoneresponded to your comment)

Conversations (both make and receiveresponses)

repeated interactions (with sameperson more than once)

repeated conversations (both theabove)

Conversations in MOOCs

Cancer Jan 2014 Sustainability March 2014

3SNA CAN LET US SEE HOW MOOCS ADAPT OVER TIME

4SNA CAN LET US SEE DEVELOPMENT OF PARTICIPANT ROLES

Sustainability MOOCMarch 2014

Sustainability MOOCJan 2015

So we can use SNA toIdentify

◦ Effect of instructor - don’t over rely on them

◦ Isolated participants - include them

◦ Brokers – nurture them

Measure the effect of interventions◦ digital e.g. addition of ‘Like’ functionality

◦ physical e.g. workshop, public lecture

ConclusionsMOOCs have often been positioned as disruptor of traditional university education. We argue that they complement our activity, enrich our teaching and extend our impact.

SNA enables us to look beyond the broad metrics of MOOCs (enrolments, attrition) and beyond small scale investigations, to look at objective signals of interaction across a global community of learners

Thank you!

Any questions?S.CAYZER@BATH.AC.UK T.MADDEN@BATH.AC.UK

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Betweeeness (log, normalised)