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Beyond the Buzz: Designing a MOOC for behavior change by Bert De Coutere from the Center for Creative Leadership for the Online Learning 2013 conference in Chicago

Beyond the Buzz: Designing a MOOC for behavior change

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Slides used at the presentation given at Online Learning 2013 - Chicago on Sept 18, 2013. Tips we share based on our LeaderMOOC experience.

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Beyond the Buzz: Designing a MOOC for behavior change

by Bert De Coutere from the Center for Creative Leadershipfor the Online Learning 2013 conference in Chicago

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Nice to meet you!

Bert De Coutere lives in Belgium, works for the Center for Creative Leadership, blogs on homocompetens.blogspot.com and is one third of the core team behind LeaderMOOC.net.

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What I promised to talk about

• About the major design decisions and criteria when organizing a MOOC aimed at behavior change

• To evaluate various technological alternatives• To design a blueprint of an in-company MOOC

Case LeaderMOOC: A MOOC outside of higher education, in the field of leadership development – currently in week 1.

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HAVE YOU LOOKED AT MOOCS IN THE LAST 24 HOURS?

Here a MOOC, there a MOOC, everywhere a MOOC MOOC

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What’s MOOC to you?

Source: http://www.dashe.com/blog/elearning/reasons-moocs-will-change-world/

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THE EARLY DAYS OF LEADERMOOCSeeing is believing

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M FOR MASSIVE AMOUNT OF WORKAnd now the real stuff

Tip 1:Find your incubator protective bubble – this is still innovation

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Make a pickDiscovery Phase

Tip 2: Start with everything you know about online learning

Who are you designing for?

Tip 3: Create personas but remain ‘open’

Platform and technicalities

Tip 4: Don’t do it yourself, use an existing platform

Blueprint

Tip 5: Create a simple, repeated structure and weekly topics in a matrix form

Business models

Tip 6: There are no established business models yet – get sponsors for your first one

Community

Tip 7: Build in interaction early and often. If you ignore your course, so will your participants.

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Discovery Phase

Tip 2: Start with everything you know about online learning

"The idea of a MOOC is not so new, only the scale

is different.“(Inge de Waard)

If you build it t

hey will come

Copyrights

Video

Navigation, UI

Evaluation

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Who are you designing for?

Tip 3: Create personas but remain ‘open’

Open: you don’t decide

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• Key question for platform choice: Is your MOOC mostly about content or about people?

• One window to the MOOC or mashup?

Platform and technicalities

Tip 4: Don’t do it yourself, use an existing platform

Scalability

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Blueprint

Tip 5: Create a simple, repeated structure and weekly topics in a matrix form There is a beginning, there is an end. What’s the end?

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Business models

Tip 6: There are no established business models yet – get sponsors for your first one

The elephant in the room:Will it eat our sales?

Sponsors

Upselling

Certification

Ads

MarketingResearch

Fee Donations

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Community

Tip 7: Build in interaction early and often. If you ignore your course, so will your participants.

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The most important lessons I learned so far

Mindset

Tip 8: It is not about you, it is about them...

Control freaks will freak out

Humble

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MORE:“BEHIND THE MOOC” ARTICLE SERIES

homocompetens.blogspot.com

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Shameless promotion of our MOOC

www.leadermooc.netMOOCs are one of those things you just need to do to understand.

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OK, let’s talk now...