elearning instructional design: advanced and breakthrough

eLearning Instructional Design: Advanced and Breakthrough Techniques

May 17 & 18, 2012

501

The Advantages of MOOCs for an International Learning Audience

Inge de Waard, Institute of Tropical Medicine

eLearning Instructional Design: Advanced and Breakthrough Techniques — May 17 & 18, 2012

Session 501 – The Advantages of MOOCs for an International Page 1Learning Audience – Inge de Waard, Institute of Tropical Medicine

The Advantages of MOOCs for an International Learning Audience

By Inge de Waard

Poll #1

Why are you interested in this presentation?

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Setting the stage: remember…

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Challenges of contemporary learning

• Knowledge turnover high => keeping expert learners / managers knowledge pioneers in theirfield of expertise

• Lifting subject matter experts to a higher level

• Cross discipline

• Building trust and respect => success

• Creating an expert community

• Building a training iteration in‐house

• …

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Who knows what a MOOC is?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc

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Why do I bring this presentation?

MobiMOOC experience (organizing, coordinating, facilitating):

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Active in MOOC’s since 2008



Tweets were sent with #mobimooc hashtag

MobiMOOC Statistics

Participants joined the Google group

Discussion threads started

mLearning links shared on Delicious

556

1827

1123

335

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10%28%

25%

22%

15% 61‐70

51‐60

41‐50

31‐40

21‐30

Participants by Age

43%

57%

Participants by Gender

Female

Male

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Numbers of interest

Opens opportunities for Lifelong Learning demands, reaching a diverse learner group.



Measuring impact ‐ the multiplicator effect with unexpected surpluses (later reading)

• MobiMOOC research team became a reality: due to a call to action to collaborate on a paper, seven MobiMOOC participants grouped together to become a research team (open science). Current results (two published papers, one on mLearning and MOOCs, one on Chaos theory and MOOC’s).

• Participants adding to the course: crowdmap, analyzing tweets, adding lists to mobile resources that were relevant to the weekly topic at hand…

• People using MobiMOOC knowledge for their professional purposes (e.g. project for UK museum, mobile health research and development center in Argentina was set up, a health MOOC is being organized in collaboration with some MobiMOOC 2011 participants).

• Institutions picking up the MOOC concept: US (San Francisco) start with language MOOC, Geoff Stead from mobile cell at Cambridge, UK distilled all the resources for dissemination at Cambridge and beyond, South Africa is now building an International Online Mobile Curriculum with MOOC idea, UK higher education invited the MobiMOOC organizer and UK facilitators to prepare a MOOC workshop to see how MOOC’s can benefit higher education in UK.

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MOOC history

Q / A

MOOC design

Costbenefit &

ROI

Freestyle

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Areas of interest

http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1046/2026

https://mobimooc.crowdmap.com/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ONxfS8TSpw29J2BQYkhbMxCcL9dUzj-ZNdGUrsmrTwk/edit?hl=en_US



MOOC history

MOOC history

Q / A

MOOC design

Costbenefit &

ROI

Freestyle

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History2007 – the Wiley wiki

An Open Course based in a wiki

Participants from around the world contributed to the creationof the course

2007: Alec CourosSocial Media and Open Education

An Open Course based in a wiki

Participants from around the world contributed to the creationof the course

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Downes & Siemens, CCK08

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Connectivism as core theoryPrinciples of connectivism:• Learning and knowledge rests in diversity

of opinions.• Learning is a process of connecting

information sources.• Learning may reside in non‐human

appliances.• Capacity to know more is more critical

than what is currently known• Ability to see connections between fields,

ideas, and concepts is a core skill.• Decision‐making is itself a learning

process.

George Siemens (2005 – Connectivism ‐ a learning theory for the digital age)

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The time is now: MOOC examples

100.000 learners!

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MOOC Design

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MOOC history

Q / A

MOOC design

Costbenefit &

ROI

Freestyle



Bringing it together in the Cloud

Their knowledge + your knowledge = our learning network17

Some definitions

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• MOOC: Massive Open Online Course (a course thatcan be followed by over 500 participants in an open learning environment situated online)

• Ubiquity: a learning environment that is accessiblewith a variety of devices (smartphones, tablets, …)

• mLearning: learning with the help of mobile devices(tablets, smartphones, netbooks, cellphones…) andwhile being mobile.

• The Cloud: online space where data is stored, people meet virtually and learning takes place.



6 Steps to get a MOOC going

1. Set up a course wiki

2. Start a Google discussion group

3. Select meaningful social media tools

4. Ensure ubiquity (accessible for a wide varietyof devices)

5. Define the roles for Your MOOC

6. Keeping participants motivated

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The core of the course

Course wiki: course outline and expectations

Google group: central discussionand meeting point

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Read these Learning Solutions articles:

StartToMOOC part 1StartToMOOC part 2

http://mobimooc.wikispaces.com/

http://groups.google.com/group/mobimooc2012



Social Media Landscape

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Select meaningful social media that fit educational goals.

Mobile enabled social media tool

Why use it Knowledge Age Challenge Addressed

Blogs

(Examples: wordpress, blogger, posterous)

To reflect on what is learned, or what the learner thinks is of importance.Keeping a learning archive.

Self-regulated learning.Lifelong Learning.Becoming active, critical content producer. .

Discussion enabler: Listserv

(Examples: google groups, yahoo groups)

Generating and maintaining discussions.Getting a group feeling going via dialogue.

Enabling dialogue.Collaboration.Self-regulated learning. Informal learning.

Social Networking

(examples: Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn)

Building a network of people that can add to the knowledge creation of the learner.

Enables networking. Collaboration.Enabling dialogue. Informal learning.Becoming active, critical content producer.

Blogpost with complete list of social media tools and their educational benefits.

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http://ignatiawebs.blogspot.com/2012/05/selecting-meaningful-socialmedia-tools.html



Increase ubiquity

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• Use online spaces that are accessible with mobile devices(m.youtube.com, flickr.com…)

• Investigate html5 and CSS (greatmobile development tools: link to free tutorial).

• Transform audiovideo to make them crossmobile accessible.

Define the roles for Your MOOC

These are the roles I like to put in:

• Course coordinator/organizer – overall motivator

• Week facilitators: responsible for their week

• Guest experts: speakers attracted for specific fields

• Participant roles: very active, intermediately active,

lurker.

• We are all in this together!

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http://m.youtube.com/

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/default.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/default.asp

http://ignatiawebs.blogspot.com/2011/06/reformatting-synchronous-recordings.html



The coordinator & facilitators keep everyone extra motivated

• Facilitators are guides‐on‐the‐side

• Per week round up mails are provided

• Keeping people motivated by connectingthem

• Provide guidance for self‐regulated learning.

• Everyone knows her/his role and the challenges of a MOOC (chaos, overload)

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Who knows what a MOOC’r looks like?

26This is Alec Couros … stressed

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/4352878480/



Collaboratively written pointersprovided by the MobiMOOC participants

• Use the course to your advantage! You know where you want to go, ask relevant help.

• Select between the abundance of resources.

• Plan which type of participant you want to be (lurker, intermediate, active)

• Develop a mental filter: you do not need to reply to everyone, skim discussions and choose to reply on what is of interest to you.

• Get to the point: be short (max 250 words) and respectful. This will save time for everyone.

Tips for coping with abundance 1

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Tips for coping with abundance 2

• Use descriptive titles in your discussion threads: this allows people to immediately anticipate where you are going with your message.

• Connect with participants working on the same topic.

• Check your e‐mail digest in the google group section 'edit my membership'.

• Pace yourself to keep motivated.

• Dare to take time off.

• The most important idea behind self‐regulated learning is: Make the course Work for YOU!

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Participants are responsiblefor their learning

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Networking Self‐regulated learning

Network connections are key

One person is not enough, the team = networkmakes the genius = strength

By following discussions, key thinkers become visible30



Self‐regulated learning & PLE:create your knowledge

You know yourself, you learn, at your pace andwith your criteria

This creates your space in the network31

Cost benefit: Return on Investment

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MOOC history

Q / A

MOOC design

Costbenefit &

ROI

Freestyle



Poll #2

How did the current financial crisis affect yourtraining/learning budget or job?

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Cost benefit / Return on investment?

In a knowledge age, securing knowledge growthis your investment for success.

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The free and open cloud

• Setting up => no cost (if in the open, can belimited to ‘members’ of learning spaces)

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Training working hours

We are in a financial crisis, but not a mental one.

The cost = training hours that could be working hours

Provide time for reflection and implementation

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Return on investment

Authentic learning: immediately

useful learning, if activities relate to learnerenvironment

usable results and knowledge

Competitive edge: work force or employees and learners on top of their field

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Raising digital literacy with emerging tools

increases the learners capacity to function in todaysconnected world

Wrapping up

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MOOC history

Q / A

MOOC design

Costbenefit &

ROI

Freestyle



Call for action

Join a MOOC or more challenging: let us knowwhere to find your MOOC!

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Interested? Join MobiMOOCMobiMOOC 2012 (second roll out of the course): Open,

online, free course on mLearning

Check your agenda: 8 – 30 September 2012

3 week course covering 10 mLearning topics chosen by the future participants

• Course wiki:http://mobimooc.wikispaces.com/

• Course discussion group:https://groups.google.com/group/mobimooc2012

• If you want to join, select your favorite topic via this online poll:

http://fs10.formsite.com/formulierenITG/form216/index.html

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Q/A Contact

E‐mail: [email protected]

Blog: ignatiawebs.blogspot.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/Ignatia

Slideshare (ppt): http://www.slideshare.net/ignatia

linkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ingedewaard

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Detailed MOOC instructions: read the Learning Solutions articles on StartToMOOC

http://ignatiawebs.blogspot.com/

http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/authors/353/inge-de-waard

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