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Why online teacher trainers should know about cMOOCsVance StevensCo-coordinator since 2003 of TESOL Electronic Village OnlineEFL Instructor at HCT / CERT / KBZAC Al Ain, UAEGlobal Education Conference, November 17, 2015
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No need to take notes
All my slides are online: http://slideshare.net/vances
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What is Electronic Village Online?
Electronic Village Online(EVO) http://evosessions.pbworks.com
5 weeks each January and February since 2001 Organized by volunteer coordinators and
session moderators from countries all over the world
Sessions designed by teachers for other teachers
Offered for free to participants from around the globe as a service to the profession
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EVO Moderator training in November each year
Helps ensure that sessions included in CfP in Dec meets standards expected in the profession
The system invites innovation and creativity in how sessions are mounted
Training designed to not simply train moderators in skills they may already have
but to model how such training might be conducted online
One such model is MOOC, in particular cMOOC
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What’s a MOOC?
Basic MOOC history• Wiki view• Wikipedia• Starting with pre-history of MOOCs• This page, click here
http://nova.campusguides.com/c.php?g=112312&p=725994
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When did MOOCs begin?
A MOOC by definition a massive open online course The term MOOC was coined in 2008 by Dave
Cormier and / or Brian Alexander Both were involved in the seminal MOOC that year
Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, the first of many of what became known as cMOOC
Credit: Alan Levine https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/5416836395
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Were there MOOCs before 2008?
Alison, 2007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Feerick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked_learning#MOOC
http://advanceducation.blogspot.ae/2012/11/when-is-mooc-not-mooc-what-mooc-means.html
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Why MOOCs?Massive: ScalesOpen / online: abundance vs. scarcity
Stephen Downes 2012; posted in Alan Levine: http://cogdogblog.com/2012/09/21/just-ds106/
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Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age (Siemens, 2004)
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
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Understanding how cMOOCs work is ineffable (must be experienced)
https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomatic-learning-the-community-is-the-curriculum/
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Organization of a cMOOCCommunity as CurriculumAs a participant, you might be asked to • Enroll your blog with the MOOC• Tag relevant posts with the MOOC tag• use https://tagboard.com/ or a script to
aggregate ALL just tagged posts from ALL participants
• And display them in newsletter format• Participants can then interact with each
other by commenting on each other’s posts
http://grsshopper.downes.ca/about.htm
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Coping with cMOOCs (Cormier)
http://youtu.be/r8avYQ5ZqM0
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Flipped Learning in MOOCs As instances of online courses, both
xMOOCs and cMOOCs utilize what has become known as flipped learning,
an idea that many consider to have been first implemented on a wide scale in Khan Academy courses in 2004 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom).
However, this common feature of MOOCs belies other very significant differences.
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Flipped learning in MOOCs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom
http://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_aiclass/all/
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Enter xMOOCs Many people associate the term MOOC
with the xMOOC model initiated by Peter Norvik and Sebastian Thrun in 2011, the latter of whom went on to start Udacity.
Coursera appeared soon after, followed by EdX,
whose name Siemens co-opted in making the distinction between cMOOCs (or connectivist MOOCs) and xMOOCs (Siemens, 2012).
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Thrun and Norvig’s xMOOC on AI
http://moocnewsandreviews.com/ultimate-guide-to-xmoocs-and-cmoocso/
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xMOOCs (Thrun went from Stanford to found Udacity)
https://www.udacity.com/courses#!/All https://www.edx.org/course-list
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Confusion over cMOOCs and xMOOCs
http://degreeoffreedom.org/xmooc-vs-cmooc/
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Siemens on cMOOC vs xMOOCSiemens coined the term xMOOC in a 2012 post "xMOOC?" http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2012/07/25/moocs-are-really-a-platform/In which he said:
"Our MOOC model emphasizes creation, creativity, autonomy, and social networked learning.
The Coursera model emphasizes a more traditional learning approach through video presentations and short quizzes and testing.
Put another way, cMOOCs focus on knowledge creation and generation whereas xMOOCs focus on knowledge duplication."
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Is EVO a MOOC? Some who have engaged in online training for
the past decade or more are considering whether what they have been doing might have fallen under the definition of MOOC all along.
EVO, now in its 15th year, could conceivably claim to be a precursor MOOC by virtue of its comprising a set of courses conducted entirely online Creating permanent artifacts on open
access and reaching thousands of participants
each year
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Maybe EVO is a MOOCIn guiding development of EVO sessions, it’s worth looking at what characterizes and distinguishes cMOOCs from xMOOCs. Some affordances of the former resonate with
what normally happens in EVO sessions; e.g. use of social media, participant driven content distributed communication no formal assessment
as specified in an article by Bates (2014) which is being used in EVO training this year.
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In conclusion … or more correctly To further the discussionEVO is all about networking and CoP The sessions strongly build content not
only from a set syllabus in each course but in most cases from discussion and
creativity brought to each subject by participants
from diverse perspectives from all over the globe
Thus EVO can benefit from considering its activities to be informed by elements of the cMOOC framework
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A short bibliography Bates, A. W. (2014), Comparing xMOOCs and cMOOCs: Philosophy and
Practice. Online learning and distance education resources. Available: http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/10/13/comparing-xmoocs-and-cmoocs-phil... (also available as Variations of MOOC Designs, Chapter 5.3 in Bates' open textbook,Teaching in a Digital Age, 2015).
Cormier, D. (2008). Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum. Innovate: Journal of Online Education 4, 5:np. Available: http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1045&context=innovate.
Siemens, G. (2012). MOOCs are really a platform. Elearnspace. Available:http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2012/07/25/moocs-are-really-a-platf....
Stevens, V. (2014). What we learn from MOOCs about Professional Development and Flipping Classrooms - GLoCALL Ahmedabad 2014. AdVancEducation. Available:http://advanceducation.blogspot.ae/2014/10/what-we-learn-from-moocs-about.html. Also,http://www.slideshare.net/vances/plenary-ahmedabad2014.
Stevens, V. (2013). From teacher networked learning to transformation in your classroom. AdVancEducation.Available: http://advanceducation.blogspot.ae/2013/09/from-teacher-networked-learning-to.html.
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What else do you want to know?
• Almost 500 posts about MOOCs: http://www.downes.ca/mooc_posts.htm
• Downes, S. (2012). Connectivism and Connective Knowledge: Essays on meaning and learning networks. Stephen's Web: My eBooks. Available http://www.downes.ca/files/Connective_Knowledge-19May2012.pdf.
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This is Episode 301 ofhttp://learning2gether.pbworks.com/Or http://tinyurl.com/learning2getherInfo and archives: http://learning2gether.net Vance Stevens, [email protected]