Download - Preserving a MOOC - Russell Boyatt
“Preserving a MOOC”
Developer ChallengeRepository Fringe 2013
Russell Boyatt, University of [email protected]
@russellb
MOOCs
● MOOC: “Massive Open Online Courses”● Large numbers of students, potentially huge amounts of activity.● Useful to gather this information for institutional archives, review by
participants and future research.
● Institutions spending large amounts of money developing content.● From a repository point of view – you've already met and are probably
already preserving some of the content!
Capturing MOOC activity
● Reach into the (open) platforms to identify content and retrieve activity.
● Web scrapers for other platforms and to gather associated resources.
● Capture social media interactions (e.g. using Twitter streaming API)
● Identify content already present in your institutional repository.● Build a package of material including XML representations of
content.● Push into a repository (with SWORD)
MOOC Preservation Toolkit
OpenMOOC
Visualisation of activity
Social media
● Twitter – streaming API, capturing all activity to a #mymooc hashtag.
● Blogs – EU FP7 Blogforever project is building a toolset for capturing and preserving blog data.
● Capture this data and preserve in repository alongside learning resources.
Preservation
● Learning resources developed for a MOOC can be captured and stored in a repository.
● Opportunity to explicitly state licensing information.● Hold resources in standard platform and formats rather than
rapidly developing MOOC platforms.● Route to collecting learning resources in a form suitable for
OER.● Preserving a representation of learning activity on the MOOC.
