For and Against MOOCsCase Study: Understanding Modern Business and Organisations Viktor Dörfler

Establishmentvs.

Paradigm Change

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MOOC business models?

thousands of participants from all over the world, we cannot be even remotely ready for what we get

no pre-requisites, and thus a wide variety of backgrounds and knowledge levels

available from the internet, comparable to anything and everything (immediately), high-tech, advanced multimedia

all high-tech etc. in service of learning-teaching, or is it not? yes, these are courses but differently…

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“By the time you know where you ought to go, it’s too late to go there.”

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big picture

up-to-date concepts

upcoming concepts

trigger concepts

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engaged for engagementmay need to handle ‘trolls’directed + free discussions(personal) storytellingdisagreement is goodwhen they form their opinion(s)certificates (21% of ‘fully participating’)

peer review to support focused learning around novel concepts with peers from diverse cultures and personal/professional backgroundsFor and Against MOOCs 5

student experience

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comments from students

Usefulness of REVIEWING another participant's essay?Quite useful/Very useful: 68%A little useful/Not useful: 29%

Usefulness of HAVING YOUR ESSAY REVIEWED by another participant?Quite useful/Very useful: 52%A little useful/Not useful: 25%

“It goes to show how fundamental the concepts are as it has relevance to many different people from different parts of the world in different situations.”

“I think we learn to communicate with people coming from different backgrounds, with different expe-riences and having points of view sometimes different from ours.”

“I liked, it is an opportunity to know others opinions, specially from the entire world.”

“Very useful. We will receive much more diverse feedback than simply being marked by a tutor.”

“You get reviewed by anyone else around the globe. Also have an opportunity to review others work as well. This is even a type of Community of Practice.”

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‘new’ expectations of the curious & impatient Shallows

learning is funlearning is sociallearning is active and passionatelearning is internationallearning is successful

technology may be troublesomebut can be masteredcontent existing → MOOC is hardthe other way around works well

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lessons learned

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admin-friendly solutionseasy to take attendance and check

who completed the preparation task

teacher oriented curriculumsequential book-logic

but you cannot flip throughuploaded slides and pdfsdo we know the price of everything

and the value of nothing?

automated processinglike ERP in companies: databases

VLE is not elearning

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Interactivity is in the mind not in the mouse.BUT IT NEEDS A MOUSE.

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formal learning is not evilbut it is simply not sufficient

from depth to breadthshallows’ portfolio of conceptsthey accept but do they ‘disseminate’?

learning is a personal choiceinteresting and emotional contentwe learn differently than we should…

mediocrity is still mediocrityconstructivism and connectionisma bad teacher is still a bad teacher

a solution in search for a problem

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Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine

SHOULD BE!

Arthur C. Clarke

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provider-driven elearning platformsuper high-tech GUIbranded and controlled by provider

content-driven MOOC designreverse standardization from VLEscharacter, plot, and personal stories

learner-driven outcome?cherry pickers are no failurescertificate about the web of concepts

mashup diploma for mashup content

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MOOCs, SPOCs, ELearning

Establishmentvs.

Paradigm Change

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