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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

ASCILITE Fellow 2012. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Gráinne Conole, University of Leicester DL Forum 26 th March 2013 . National Teaching Fellow 2012. Outline. What are they ? Evolving MOOC landscape Design principles Pros and Cons The OLDS MOOC Disaggregation of Education.

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

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  1. ASCILITE Fellow 2012 Massive Open Online Courses(MOOCs) Gráinne Conole, University of Leicester DL Forum 26th March 2013 National Teaching Fellow 2012

  2. Outline • What are they? • Evolving MOOC landscape • Design principles • Pros and Cons • The OLDS MOOC • Disaggregation of Education

  3. 100 million adults can’t afford university (UNESCO) Image by James Cridland

  4. What are they? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc

  5. Evolving MOOC landscape • Online course with large-scale participation adopting open practices • 2008 Connectivism and Connective Knowledge • cMOOCs and xMOOCs • Key players: Coursera, edX, Udacity • Now: FutureLearn and a new Oz platform http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a2cEzsMEMY

  6. Design principles • Aggregation • Remixing • Re-purposing • Feeding forward • Personalised • Multiple channels • No ‘right’ pathway http://www.flickr.com/photos/14852568@N04/3363891963/

  7. Pros and cons Free Distributed global community Social inclusion http://alternative-educate.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/audio-ascilite-2012-great-debate-moocs.html High dropout rates Learning income not learning outcome Marketing exercise www.evolllution.com/distance_online_learning/massive-open-online-learning-creativity-and-competency/

  8. http://www.olds.ac.uk/

  9. Disaggregation of education Resources Learning pathways Support Accreditation http://openclipart.org/

  10. The OER movement • Over ten years of the Open Educational Resource (OER) movement • Hundreds of OER repositories worldwide • Presence on iTunesU Podcasts - iTunes U

  11. The OPAL metromap Evaluation shows lack of uptake by teachers and learners Shift from development to community building and articulation of OER practice http://www.oer-quality.org/

  12. POERUP outputs • An inventory of more than 300 OER initiatives http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Countries_with_OER_initiatives • 11 country reports and 13 mini-reports http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Countries • Comparative analysis of transversal OER initiatives • 7 in-depth case studies • 3 EU-wide policy papers

  13. State of the art in OER • Builds on a UNESCO conference on HE (09) • Discourse on policy and practice • How do institutions reposition themselves in an information rich world where tools and resources are freely available? http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=412

  14. Combating social exclusion • Completely open • Free • Education for all • Easy to access and use • Crosses boundaries • Access to new knowledge and expertise • Aggregation of resources • Sharing ideas and practice • Facilitates the development of networks

  15. Learning pathways • Guided pathways through materials • Can promote different pedagogical approaches • Didactic • Constructivist • Situative • Connectivist Collaborative Pedagogical Patterns

  16. Support • Computer assisted • Peer support • Tutor support • Community support • Mentoring http://www.flickr.com/photos/24289877@N02/5851058394/

  17. Peer to Peer University OER University wikieducator.org/OER_university/ www.p2pu.org/en/ Accreditation Mozilla badges http://openbadges.org/

  18. Changing practices • Nature of learning, teaching and research is changing • It’s about • Harnessing new media • Adopting open practices • New business models are emerging

  19. http://www.slideshare.net/GrainneConole http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance grainne.conole@le.ac.uk http://e4innovation.com

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