Massive Open Online CoursesOpen education of course?

Martin Hawksey@mhawksey

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[Taking on the dogmatic approach to education with a bit of ‘reclaim open digital connectedness’]

Things you need to know

•Links and slides http://go.alt.ac.uk/RSCMOOC (all caps)

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The future of …

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©Bret Victor 09-Jul-2013 https://vimeo.com/71278954

Von Neumann Bottleneck

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©Bret Victor 09-Jul-2013 https://vimeo.com/71278954

NLS oN-Line System:the mother of all demos

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©Bret Victor 09-Jul-2013 https://vimeo.com/71278954

NLS oN-Line System:Real time collaboration

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI8r8D46JOY#t=50s

NLS oN-Line System:Firsts

• the computer mouse• 2-dimensional display editing• in-file object addressing, linking• hypermedia• outline processing• flexible view control• multiple windows• cross-file editing• integrated hypermedia email• hypermedia publishing• document version control• shared-screen teleconferencing• computer-aided meetings

• formatting directives• context-sensitive help• distributed client-server

architecture• uniform command syntax• universal "user interface" front-

end module• multi-tool integration• grammar-driven command

language interpreter• protocols for virtual terminals• remote procedure call protocols• compilable "Command Meta

Language"

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Collaborate now…

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The future of education…

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©Martin Hawksey 25-Nov-2013https://vimeo.com/80274717

...Bret Victor’s

reflections on

https://vimeo.com/80274717

DogmaticEd

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©Michael Coghlan 22-May-2011http://www.flickr.com/photos/89165847@N00/5780761773/

DogmaticEd

• Accreditation

• Expectation

• Architecture (structural and technical)

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Massive Open Online Courses

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“revolutionising conventional models of formal education.”

“a transformational new partnership in online education.”

“Higher education is broken with increasingly higher costs for both students and our society at large.”

"Higher education is ripe for innovation: it is too expensive and limited to afew"

Adapted from David Kernohan, 2013

MOOCs As a service

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“we don't

educate people

as others wished,

or as I wished.

We have a lousy

product.” Thrun

“we don't

educate people

as others wished,

or as I wished.

We have a lousy

product.” Thrun

“BlackBoard CourseSites:Move your courses online free”

“Pearson OpenClass:Break through to learning at scale”

“Instructure Canvas:Open online learning, as defined by you”

Adapted from David Kernohan, 2013

Platform As a service … (which might be used for a mooc)

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“XBlock is a component architecture for building courseware.”

“the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course

Open Source bespoke MOOC platforms

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Digital now…

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©Jonathan Worth

©Jonathan Worthhttp://jonathanworth.com/

Gutenberg Bible

Connected now…

go.alt.ac.uk/RSCMOOC http://vimeo.com/76178422

©EDUCAUSEhttp://vimeo.com/76178422

ocTEL Context

• professional development for people teaching at Higher Education level

• funded by Leadership Foundation in HE (Innovation and Transformation Fund)

• TEL about TEL• experiment for ALT designing and delivering a

MOOC• drawing on goodwill of the community

CC-By David Jennings (2013)

ocTEL in numbers

• 10 modules + Induction • 11 weeks, 55 hours• 11 authors• 20 tutors• 1 face-to-face meeting• 903 registrations on night before launch• passed 1,000 four days later

Cc-By David Jennings (2013)

ocTEL

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Black box(aggregator)

Daily Alert(email/RSS)

Centralstore

Comments

Blogs

LMS

SocialBookmarking

Twitter & Social media

Adapted from Siemens, 2012

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#phonar

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• Pre-recorded interviews• “as you listen please tweet your notes and comments

using the #phonar hashtag and don’t forget to storify the global set of notes/tweets afterwards.”

• More about #phonar http://youtu.be/lNmTKxeiC2Y

©Alan Levine 2013-11-06http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/10728065255/

Open Tech Toolbox

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closed <-> open

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©timlewisnm 18-Oct-2010http://www.flickr.com/photos/10343926@N02/5096804847

“At its best openness is an ethos not a license. It's an approach to teaching and learning that builds a community of learners online

and off.” Jim Groom

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The Value Proposition

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Riding Giants

• Predicting Giants

• Learning to ride

• Evidence on board

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The 21st annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology 1-3 September 2014, Warwick, UK

Conference co-chairs: Sarah Cornelius, Linda Creanor and Joe Wilson

©Maria Georgieva 07-Jul-2007http://www.flickr.com/photos/80336673@N08/8062685725

Thanks!

Martin Hawkseymashe.hawkse.info

@mhawksey

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