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Designing Massive-scale Social Learning Mike Sharples Academic Lead, FutureLearn Professor of Educational Technology, The Open University

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Designing Massive-scale Social Learning

Mike SharplesAcademic Lead, FutureLearn

Professor of Educational Technology, The Open University

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MASSIVEOPENONLINECOURSE

WHAT IS A MOOC?

2 to 6 HOURSper week

1,000 to 100,000 LEARNERS

OPEN to ALLNo prior

qualifications

6 to 10 WEEKSduration

SOCIAL INTERACTION

throughout

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MASSIVE-SCALE EDUCATION

250 million views per year

9 million active learners

7 million course learners

5 million OU registered learners

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We have excellent university partners…

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We’re proud to count 26 world class universities amongst our partners…

PARTNERS

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And world-leadingcontent partners…

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... plus three world famous cultural institutions

PARTNERS

BRITISH LIBRARY BRITISH COUNCIL BRITISH MUSEUM

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... offering free courses worldwide

and experimenting with new models of learning

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… on multiple devices

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DESIGNED FOR MOBILE, TABLET & DESKTOP

FutureLearn is designed for the learner to enjoy the experience whatever the location

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FUTURELEARN PRODUCT

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Built around social-constructivist learning

Designed through an agile process, with explicit input from education experts and learning technologists

All new features are determined with respect to appropriate and effective support for learning

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FUTURELEARN PRODUCT

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Draws on findings from research on effective learning

We are not simply adopting methods from previous platforms such as Moodle.

We have to rethink

for massive scale

a wide variety of learners with different abilities

self-motivation rather than learning for credit

multiple platformsMASTERY LEARNING

SELF-PREDICTION OF PERFORMANCE& PROFILES OF PROGRESSION

SOCIAL LEARNING

IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK

VISIBLE LEARNING

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LEARNER COMMENT

“I read through the above article and thought “that’s interesting” then I read the comments below, particularly the discussion of niches, and suddenly thought a whole lot more.  Not wishing to knock the OU in anyway because their content is excellent but it’s almost as if the basic course is in 2D but the postings lift it to 3D and really make it come alive.”

Comment posted by Karen Carmichael Timson, Learner on Ecosystems course

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PEDAGOGY OF THE MASSIVE

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Teaching, learning and assessment appropriate to massive scale learning:

FOLLOWING

Learners follow others, and being

followed within and across courses

MENTORING

Support for large groups of learners by

mentors during a course

ACTIVITY GROUPS

Small groups of learners engaged in a shared activity for a

short time

PEER REVIEWAND PEER

ASSESSMENT

All these, and other pedagogies, are being implemented in a distinctively FutureLearn way

Assessment for learning

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EXAMPLE DATA ON PEER REVIEW

Active learners 927Total assignments 300Average length of assignments 283Total reviews 495Average reviews per assignment 1.6Median minutes to first review 56

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LEARNER COMMENTS ON PEER REVIEW

Shakespeare’s Hamlet: University of Birmingham

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Learning for life