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Am I smart enough to participate in a MOOC?

Jutta Pauschenwein ZML – Innovative Learning Scenarios, FH JOANNEUM

08.05.2012

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Overview

� What is a MOOC?� How do participants learn in an

open online course?� My learning experience in the

MOOC� 2 MOOC learning artefacts� Am I “smart enough” for the

MOOC?

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A MOOC – massive open online course??

�Thousands of learners, different didactical approaches

The Change 11 MOOC

�One website change.mooc.ca/ which offers expert inputs and collects learners’contributions�Massive number of ideas, reflections, multimedia spread in the web

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Learning in the Change MOOC

� Reflecting the MOOC topics in the blog, tweeting, collecting social bookmarks

� Reading the contributions of the other learners

� Participating in the online meetings� Network

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aggregateremix

repurposefeed forward

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Course facilitators

� Stephen Downes� a senior researcher for Canada's

National Research Council �George Siemens

� a researcher with the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute at Athabasca University

�Dave Cormier� Manager of web communications

and innovations at the University of Prince Edward Island

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Connectivism

George Siemens� knowledge is networked and distributed

across connections � technology and connection making are

the bases of learning in the digital age Stephen Downes� Knowledge is not a thing and it cannot be

acquired� it is the growth and development of

connections in our minds and in society

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Dave Cormier

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My preferite tools: Wordpress (blog), twitter,diigo (social bookmarks)

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My learning experience

1.Orientation was easy (week 1-3)2.Start new blog category and start blogging (Oct.-Dec. 2011)3.Find other learners, read others –overhelming experience!4.Co-learners are leaving for another MOOC! Clustering???5.Writing papers (Jan.– Mar.12) -meta reflection of the MOOC6.Last 2 months: doing 1-5 in a very relaxed way �

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José Bogado (Paraguay): la vaca de los sinvaca

Gordon Lockhart: first version of the MOOC cow

ZML MOOC Cow

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Am I “smart enough” for the MOOC?

� Self-motivation, self-organization� Network – feeling connected� Deal with abundance of information� Sophisticated use of web-tools

Yes, I’m smart enough –I “survived” the Change 11 MOOC

And .. there’s a lot to learn!

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Jutta Pauschenwein

My blog: zmldidaktik.wordpress.comTwitter: jupidu

Diigo: www.diigo.com/user/jupiduZML Website: zml.fh-joanneum.atChange MOOC: change.mooc.ca