Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Personal experiences from MOOCs and their potential for increasing diversity, social

inclusion & learner engagement

Mark Morley

January 2013

http://bit.ly/UxZfsX

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Online

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Course

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History of MOOCs

2007

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Alec CourosSocial Media and Open Education

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David WileyWiley Wiki

2008

Term MOOC is born

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Dave Cormier

Connectivism & Connective Knowledge

(CCK08)

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George Siemens

2010

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Jim GroomDigital Storytelling

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2011

Schism

cMOOC xMOOCConnectivism Transmissive

Growth of xMOOCs

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Sebastian Thrun

Introduction toArtificial IntelligenceCS221

StanfordEngineering

xMOOC StartupsStanford Stream

Coursera

Udacity

Harvard & MIT Stream

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Dec 2012

UK ConsortiumFutureLearn Ltd

Open University

Birmingham University

Bristol University Cardiff University

University of East Anglia

King's College London

Lancaster University

Leeds University

Southampton University

University of St. Andrews University of Warwick

my Experience

cMOOCs

Change: Education, Learning,

and Technology

#Change11

Different facilitator for each

of 34 weeks

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Change11 Community

Large

VibrantDynamic

Thought Provoking

Challenging

Digital Storytelling

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ds106A Community

A CultureA Movement

A Way of BeingA Creative Revelation

Introduction to Openness in Education

#ioe12

12 Topics relating to Openness

Open Badges

OpenEd Overview Novice Level:

Apprentice Level:OpenEd ResearcherOpenEd Assessment Designer

Journeyman Level:OpenEd Evangelist

ioe12Well thought out course

Great structure

Appropriate course materials

Small, active participant community

Great Open Badge assessment

xMOOCs

Coursera

The University of Michigan's

Social Network Analysis

Coursera standardized course delivery environment

Video & text course materialsEmbedded quizzes

Graded tests

Active Discussion Forum

Course data61,285 students registered

25,151 watched at least one video15,391 tried as least one in-video quiz6,919 submitted at least one assignment2,417 took final exam

1,303 earned the regular certificate

Comments

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Community

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