Session
Vance Stevens7th Virtual Round Table Online Conference
EVO SymposiumApril 27, 2014
Vance Stevens: Virtual Round Table, Apr 27, 2014
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What is MultiMOOC?
• It’s a community• It’s an EVO
session• It emulates a
cMOOC (not an xMOOC)
• It’s NOT a MOOC
Vance Stevens: Virtual Round Table, Apr 27, 2014
So why call it MultiMOOC?
MultiMOOC derives from a succession of EVO sessions (co-) moderated by Vance Stevens• Webheads in Action (2002 ongoing)• Various intervening
sessions; e.g. Webpresence (2005-2006)http://www.tinyurl.com/4j8kb
• Multiliteracies (2009-2012)
• MultiMOOC (2013-14)http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com
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More Precursors to MultiMOOC• English for Webheads 1998 – 2002 (link at URL below)
• Webheads in Action 2002 ongoing - http://webheads.info • Webheads in Action Online Convergences 2005, 2007, 2009• Learning2gether 2010 ongoing http://learning2gether.net/about/ • Multiliteracies 2004 to 2012 (archive at URL below)
• MultiMOOC 2013-2014 http://goodbyebutenberg.pbworks.com
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Underlying Philosophy
– To give participants an alternative perspective on what it means to teach and learn
– To form and perpetuate communities and networks• Appreciated by like-minded Coolaid aficionados
• Experimental• Reliant on chaos
• Designed or not designed
MultiMOOC and its precursors have always been
Vance Stevens: Virtual Round Table, Apr 27, 2014
What’s in the Coolaid?Over this time Vance has been sipping frequently from the Coolaid of Connectivism• Siemens, 2004
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
• CCK 2008, 2009, 2011 • Siemens and Rheingold, chaos in learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMfipxhT_Co
• Siemens 2013 would point students to Coursera for content and use his course for in depth discussionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGh4Xvp--iY
https://sites.google.com/site/themoocguide/home
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How does this work in MultiMOOC?
• Five-week course patterned on Cormier’s 5 steps for success in MOOCs http://youtu.be/r8avYQ5ZqM0
• Week 1. Orient2. Declare3. Network4. Cluster5. Focus
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Week 3: NetworkingPast two years we have worked as follows:• Week 1, Orient (the usual)• Week 2, Declare
(introductions out of the way)• Week 3, Network, now let’s join a MOOC
– 2013 Alec Couros’s MOOC http://etmooc.org/
– 2014 Rhizo14 The Community is Curriculumhttps://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomatic-learning-the-community-is-the-curriculum/ Crafting the ePerfect Textbookhttp://ebookevo.pbworks.com/w/page/70262228/Welcome
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How is this working out?
• What doesn’t appear to work– Nature of chaos is lack of structure
(cat herding)• Not well understood by co-moderators• Not well understood by participants• Not well managed by lead moderator
• What appears to work– Jim Buckingham managed to implement BADGES
(using Credly)– In 2014, participants disappeared into Rhizo14
• Therefore the approach works ??• Fulfillment of a dream
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MultiMOOC as fulfillment of a dream
EVO has long needed an“umbrella” “course”• Where participants in other sessions can
aggregate knowledge in a central space• cMOOCs show us ways of aggregating that
knowledge– GrssHopper and “Daily” aggregation of content
http://grsshopper.downes.ca/ – I have a question @eduquestion #eduquestion
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Whither MultiMOOC?
Options for next year• Stop it already! Learn from someone else for a change or join some other team
• Formally funnel weeks 3-5 into an existing MOOC– Would mean planning for weeks 1-2
• Orientation in MOOCs• How to aggregate so content returns to EVO center
– Dissipation in Week 3 with reliance thereafter on community discussion of content aggregation
• Restructure with co-moderators engaged in weekly planning
For more information
All Vance Stevens slide presentations are available at http://slideshare.net/vances
Vance blogs at http://learning2gether.netAnd at http://AdVancEducation.blogspot.com
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