how to mooc? – a pedagogical guideline for practitioners
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Presentation at The 10th eLearning and Software for Education Conference, April 2014, BucharestTRANSCRIPT
„How to MOOC? - – A pedagogical guideline for practitioners“
Elke Lackner, Michael Kopp, Martin Ebner
Definitions
MOOC „Massive Open Online Course“
First „MOOC“ done by George Siemens („connectivism“)
Stephen Downes
„MOOC“ stands for
Massive = huge amount of learners Open = open source, open learning
Online = only in the World Wide Web Course = similar to a lecture
xMOOC
• „x“ = „extension“ • Harvard did in that way for the first time • Very straight course form offered on a special
platform • Sequential learning units, mostly done by at least one
short video (up to 15 minutes) and a short assessment afterwards
Behnam Taraghi, Martin Ebner, Sandra Schön (2013). Systeme im Einsatz WBT, LMS, E-Portfolio-Systeme, PLE und andere. In: Martin Ebner & Sandra Schön (Hrsg.), Lehrbuch für Lernen und Lehren mit Technologien (L3T). URL: http://l3t.eu/homepage/das-buch/ebook-2013/kapitel/o/id/137/name/systeme-im-einsatz
Typical xMOOC consits of:
• course structure with learning targets, • video lectures (recordings or new products), • additional learning content according to the video
lectures • asynchronous communication possibilities (e.g.
discussion forums) • self-assessment according to the video lectures • certificates for successful completion of the course • information system that provides all these contents
Behnam Taraghi, Martin Ebner, Sandra Schön (2013). Systeme im Einsatz WBT, LMS, E-Portfolio-Systeme, PLE und andere. In: Martin Ebner & Sandra Schön (Hrsg.), Lehrbuch für Lernen und Lehren mit Technologien (L3T). URL: http://l3t.eu/homepage/das-buch/ebook-2013/kapitel/o/id/137/name/systeme-im-einsatz
Problems
• Teacher to student interaction • High drop out rate • Grading, certificates, no ECTS? • Financial aspects (platform, content, videos, ...) • Quality aspects
xMOOCs in Austria
How to improve the quality of MOOCS?
„This research study strongly concentrates on developing a checklist for practitioners who would like to do an
xMOOC in the future by examining different xMOOCs and reflecting first experiences gathered through daily
work on MOOCs “
Seven main categories
1. core requirements 2. structure 3. participant requirements 4. assignments 5. media design 6. communication 7. resources
For example category 5
All categories and subitems are listed in the appendix as well as in the conference proceeding
Discussion
Assistance: The checklist was done to support educators doing a first Massive Open Online Importance of the issues: The checklist is not an obligatory list. With other words, the educators or administrators have to decide if a listed issue is relevant for their courses Completeness: The checklist will never be finished, as forthcoming MOOCs will address new elements and carry out new technical, didactical or administrative ideas.
contact Martin Ebner | TU Graz | [email protected]
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
Appendix
category 1
category 2
category 3
category 4
category 5
category 6
category 7