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presentation at conVerge13. This presentation looks at current options for an organisation to involve themselves in MOOCs. It looks at the history and development of MOOCs and explores the dialogue around MOOCS to develop better understanding of what they are and how they can be applied.
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"I have a BA in music but really it's a major in Youtube and a minor in classical piano."
• Origins• Present• Direction
Exercise• In pairs talk with someone here. Have you
done a MOOC? Tell the other person about it.• If you haven’t done one where would you
look?
Now tag yourself
#travel#movies#coffee#sport
Definitions
WIKIPEDIA 2013
• A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a community for the students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs). MOOCs are a recent development in distance education.[1]
• Although early MOOCs often emphasized open access features, such as open licensing of content, open structure and learning goals and connectivism, to promote the reuse and remixing of resources, some notable newer MOOCs use closed licenses for their course materials, while maintaining free access for students
WIKIPEDIA 2012
• a course where the participants are distributed and course materials are also dispersed across the web', adding that 'this is possible only if the course is open, and works significantly better if the course is large. The course is not a gathering, but rather a way of connecting distributed instructors and learners across a common topic or field of discourse
ORIGIN
• The term MOOC originated in Canada. Dave Cormier and Bryan Alexander coined the acronym to describe an open online course at the University of Manitoba designed by George Siemens and Stephen Downes. The course, Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, was presented to 25 fee-paying students on campus and 2,300 other students from the general public who took the online class free of charge
Other origins…
• McLuhan• Open courseware• Leigh Blackall
X…
• “an educational resource resembling a class, that has assessment mechanisms and an endpoint, that is all online, that is free to use without admissions criteria and that involves hundreds of students or more.”
Even the Oxford dictionary got it wrong…
MOOC
• A descriptive model of the types of learning, of how people are already learning online, gathered around a subject…
XMOOCs
• Coursera, Udacity, Edx• (open2study)
xMOOC positives
• Free and vast reach• Innovation funding• Badging • Analytics• Credit
#stupidthingsxMOOCsdo
• Geographic collaboration• Term based• Clicks=enrolments=student numbers• Ignore social and collaborative benefits• Ignore how the web works (RSS, distributed)• Limit availability of content• Television with Quizzes• Networked textbook• Rockstars
Coursera…
• Does not have 5 million enrolments…
xMOOC outsourcing
• Just because you outsource your MOOC activity doesn’t mean you are in the game.
Is it good for us?
The price/value of eggs…
What do you prefer
• Free Range?• Battery?• Independent brand?• Supermarket brand?• Free range and organic?• Biodynamic…?
Would you eat a GM egg?
Xcanola
Xcanola
• Glow bright on the horizon• Repeatability en masse• Hard to avoid• Production yield• Nutritional value???
cMOOCs
• Open social networks• Syndication, aggregation, curation• Students contribute content• Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Cseed savers
Cseed savers
• Value of natural heritage• Nature in how we naturally learn• Community• Open sharing• Richer and more varied pedagogy• Warm and fuzzy
Revolutionary…
• Both x and c MOOCs are here to stay• And there are hybrids...
easy
pathways
Social
Classroom
Open2study
• Genius design (easy…)• 48 subjects 2013• 100k students in 6 Mo• 25% completion and pass rates (unlike most
xMOOCs which are at about 7%)• Worthy attempt to integrate both social
aspects of cMOOCs with scale of xMOOCs• Responsive to feedback
RMIT Photography
Students or Audience? Teachers or Presenters?
a continuum
TV LMS SOCIALPLATFORM
xMOOC cMOOC
open2study
TV LMS
SOCIALPLATFORM
TV LMS
SOCIALPLATFORM
• Qualification level• Complexity• Teacher digital maturity• Student maturity• Student digital maturity
SOCIALPLATFORM
TV
c
x
Where can you start?
• How much does it cost?• Money is not a value…• When you outsource MOOCs you give away
social capital• LMS• Social platforms (Elgg, Corus, Google+)
Fun: we’re going to the MOOCs
REFERENCES
• http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_o
nline_course 18/11/2013• http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/vie
wArticle/2012-18/html• http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/
massively-open-online-course-MOOC• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/8
620174342/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Mathieu Plourde mathplourde on Flickr
REFERENCES
• http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/MOOC
• www.open2study.com• https://
plus.google.com/u/0/communities/109675815220709436631
• https://plus.google.com/photos/100278799643331353620/albums/5939947031463044641
Photo Credits
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/43622352@N08/5618635252 Lee-ann Khoh on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/26811962@N05/3468717396 Steve Wilson on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/11540081@N05/2983197457 Nick J Webb on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/40143737@N02/4355598762 x-ray delta one on Flickr
Photo credits
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/72441891@N00/448636315 Liam on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/66606673@N00/450373034 cobalt123 on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/ze_valdi/7085448293/sizes/o/ Ze.Valdi on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/28165389@N05/9006059807 by Colin Key on Flickr
Photo credits
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/7371031@N08/4531740826 London Permaculture on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/35375520@N07/3599784525 Werner Kunz on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/31157339@N00/3378519995 Fernando de Souza on Flickr
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