Слайд 1The Mystery
of MOOCs
LAURA CZERNIEWICZ & SUKAINA WALJI
30 September 2014
Слайд 2
Introduction: the context of MOOCs
Слайд 3
Teaching & learning interaction
Assessment & certification
Content
Traditionally: a single package
Time
Space
Слайд 4Disaggregation
Content
Teaching & learning interaction
Certification
Time
Platform
Слайд 5Disaggregation
Content
Teaching & learning interaction
Assessment & certification
Time
Platform
Слайд 6Access to content
Legal
Digital
Analogue
Illegal
Textbooks
Some photocopying
E-Textbooks
Open Education Resources
Photocopying
Pirate sites
File sharing
Слайд 7Disaggregation
Content
Teaching & learning interaction
Certification
Time
Place
Слайд 8Disaggregation
Content
Teaching & learning interaction
Certification
Time
Platform
Слайд 9Learning platforms
Hill, P (6 Feb 2014) http://mfeldstein.com/resilient-higher-ed-lms-canvas/
Слайд 10
Free content
Pay to access platform
Слайд 11Changes in teaching & learning
Content
Teaching & learning interaction
Certification
Time
Place
Слайд 12On campus
Remote
Internet supported
Fully online
F2F only
Forms of provision
Location
of students
Internet dependent
Online-intensive
Слайд 13Disaggregation
Content
Teaching & learning interaction
Certification
Time
Platform
Слайд 14Certification: non university providers
Слайд 15Certification: new forms
Badges- micro, granular certification
A form of formal(ised) recognition
for informal
learning processes
for chunks of
content
for competencies
Слайд 16Certification: new forms & providers
“Degreed is a community of college students,
professionals, and lifelong learners dedicated to advancing their education. When you join Degreed, you get tools to help you track, organize, share, and validate everything you learn. “
Degreed - launched in 2013
Слайд 19Certification: new forms
£ 119
Pearson Vue Test Centre
£ 24
Слайд 22On campus
Remote
Internet supported
Fully online
F2F only
Forms of provision
Location
of students
Internet dependent
Online-intensive
MOOCs
Слайд 24MOOCs did not just appear
Open education
Distance education
Online education
Long history
2012
Слайд 25April 2012
http://edutechnica.com/moocmap
Слайд 26October 2012
http://edutechnica.com/moocmap
Слайд 27April 2013
http://edutechnica.com/moocmap
Слайд 28October 2013
http://edutechnica.com/moocmap
Слайд 33Showcase teaching and introduce topics with high-profile ‘rockstar’ presenters
Introduce fields and
support students in undergraduate study
Develop skills and introduce topics for postgraduate study.
Showcase research and special interest topics of interest to postgraduate level
Showcase professional careers for continuing education and qualifications
Слайд 34Category 1 Teaching showcase
General interest high profile course
Showcases the institution
by means of an engaging subject or personality led.
Global interest and matches a popular understanding of high profile MOOCs
n
High production costs | high enrollment | loose curriculum ties
May attract external funding
Слайд 35Category 1 Teaching showcase
General interest high profile course
Showcases the institution
by means of an engaging subject or personality led.
Global interest and matches a popular understanding of high profile MOOCs
n
High production costs | high enrollment | loose curriculum ties
May attract external funding
Слайд 36Category 2 Gateway skills
Provides foundational, bridging or enhancement skills for
pre HE entry or during undergraduate pathways towards specialisation.
Could replace teaching for 'bottleneck courses.’
Local interest, either within the institution or at a country-wide setting.
Moderate production costs | low enrollment | close curriculum ties
May attract external funding |
Слайд 37Category 3 Graduate literacies
Post-graduate level courses to support application or
programmes of study
Focussed on building postgraduate literacies.
Likely to be of local or national interest.
Moderate production costs | low enrollment | close curriculum ties
May attract external funding
Слайд 38Category 4 Professional showcase
Geared towards vocational skills development, re-tooling and professional
development.
Could be offered in conjunction with professional bodies.
Likely to be of local interest, although some specialised topics may be globally relevant. .
Moderate to high production costs |medium to high enrollment
Close curriculum ties |May attract organisational funding
High potential for pathway to credit or revenue generation
Слайд 39Category 5 Research showcase
Showcase research or more specialised topics of interest
Offered at postgraduate level and assume some background in the topicstill geared towards general or leisure learning.
Likely to have global appeal.
Moderate/high production costs | medium/high enrollment
Loose curriculum ties
Слайд 40Category 5 Research showcase
Showcase research or more specialised topics of interest
Offered at postgraduate level and assume some background in the topicstill geared towards general or leisure learning.
Likely to have global appeal.
Moderate/high production costs | medium/high enrollment
Loose curriculum ties
Слайд 42Course offered simultaneously as a formal and as a open course.
Small
private open course nested inside a MOOC
Massive Online Course: formal course inspired by MOOC pedagogy
Students in a course taking a MOOC with added local support and additional material
Massive Open Online Course
Formal course with lectures and support.
Слайд 45Perspectives on MOOCs
What MOOCs exist and why might I want to
do a MOOC?
What is there is learn from MOOCs?
How can I use and develop MOOCs? Why are MOOCs useful?
Слайд 46Why take a MOOC
Learn a new skill for use in your
work/life (eg stats for research)
Learn for fun/self enrichment (eg. about climate change)
Gives yourself a ‘taste’/trial of a new field or subject
Experience online learning
Earn a certificate
Слайд 47What kind of learning
Participant can choose:
‘Drop-in’ and have a look (like
a magazine)
Start out and decide how much (like taking a book out of the library)
Pick and choose what you want to explore(like a reference book)
Go along for the ride (like auditing a class)
Engage fully with the intention of learning (like taking a class)
Слайд 49University of Pennsylvania MOOC Registrants
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/pdf/ahead/perna_ruby_boruch_moocs_dec2013.pdf
Слайд 50Completion Rates
http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html
Слайд 51The reasons for doing a MOOC are interesting
but the reasons for
not completing tell us more
http://www.edcentral.org/
Слайд 52Perspectives on MOOCs
What MOOCs exist and why might I want to
do a MOOC?
What is there is learn from MOOCs?
How can I use and develop MOOCs? Why are MOOCs useful?
Слайд 53Why use MOOCs?
extending the classroom
building networks
exposure to different contexts
accessing experts
bringing in
diversity and depth of experience
putting African participants into a global network
benefit from other (high quality) educational resource inputs
supplement gaps in current provision
Слайд 54Why use MOOCs
Putting Africa into global network
“Clinicians from Africa (and
other low resourced settings) were given direct access to experts and people fortunate enough to have more access to education and educational resources, in other words it provided access to education to those that really needed it who could then directly impact peoples lives” (Workshop participant).
Слайд 55Why use MOOCs
Benefit from other educational resource inputs
“give students access to
high quality materials”
“MOOCs can lower the burden of overflowing ‘face-to-face classes’ for staff and can liberate the learner to construct his/her own knowledge”
“academic staff development through accessing latest courses that are available in the MOOC platforms. Offers less experienced academic staff access to leading academics knowledge (a teaching development resource)”
Слайд 56How you can use MOOCs
Create your own MOOCs including variants
Creating MOOCs
can be very resource intensive but need not be – depends on purpose and choices you make.
Use existing MOOCs
Слайд 57Course offered simultaneously as a formal and as a open course.
Small
private open course nested inside a MOOC
Massive Online Course: formal course inspired by MOOC pedagogy
Students in a course taking a MOOC with added local support and additional material
Massive Open Online Course
Formal course with lectures and support.
Слайд 58Creating variants
An example: ‘open boundary course’ can be a lower cost
approach to offering a MOOC and is where an existing course is simultaneously opened out to others who are not formally enrolled
Key benefit: Bringing a more diverse student body into existing course – open boundary courses
Distance education in developing world & Africa has been offering massive enrollments but only now tentatively venturing into online and blended forms e.g. Unisa offering MOCs
Слайд 59Using existing MOOCs
Flipping courses with MOOCs
Blending MOOCs with face-to-face classroom
sessions
Use MOOCs as Learning Resources
Use for Professional Development
Wrapping a MOOC to supplementary skills for students
Слайд 61Perspectives on MOOCs
What MOOCs exist and why might I want to
do a MOOC?
What is there is learn from MOOCs?
How can I use and develop MOOCs? Why are MOOCs useful?
Слайд 62A research opportunity
The massiveness of MOOCs, their accessibility, and the wide
range of questions they raise make the topic a very fertile area for research, and this is likely to generate new methods of research and analysis in the educational field (Bates, 2014)
Слайд 63What we’d like MOOCs to do
“I believe that MOOCs can lower
the burden of overflowing ‘face-to-face classes’ for staff and can liberate the learner to construct his/her own knowledge. Also, this can raise professional education as access to tertiary education can be increased and extended to the working class”. (Participant in a recent workshop on Developing World MOOCs)
Слайд 64What the research indicates…
“But the people most likely to stay the
course and gain a free qualification are well-educated men in their 30s working in professional jobs. Research by MOOC provider Coursera shows that 85% of MOOC participants already have university degrees.
So the problem MOOCs succeed in solving is: to provide free university teaching for highly qualified professionals. (Diana Laurrilard)”
Слайд 65What research says about succeeding in a MOOC
Require digital literacies and
know-how to navigate the online space, make sense of resources and (esp. Connectivist MOOCs)
Connectivity & bandwidth constraints for signed up participants in developing countries (heavy video-based courses)
Cultural and language factors
Highly motivated learners (hence plenty of e.g. of plucky individuals from developing countries succeeding in MOOCs)
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“Alin used MOOCs to get a better job. He took Introduction
to Computer Science at Udacity and at Codecademy, Introduction to R, a programming language used mainly for statistical analysis. Neither of these courses were part of his curriculum at Dhaka University.
Noting it on his CV, he was not only hired by his employer but was made supervisor of a team of three holding similar finance degrees to himself. He admits not having noteworthy grades at DU, but given his MOOC knowledge, he was able to convince his employer he was qualified for the job”
Слайд 67MOOC design evolving
Many models of MOOC designs emerging
E.g. George Siemens piloting
a dual pathway MOOC where learners either work though a linear pathway or through project-based groups (Siemens 2014).
SPOCs and other variants result of understanding student interactions.
Platform design to scale – FutureLearn based on ‘conversational framework at scale’.
MOOCs are NOT suitable in many contexts e.g. San Jose experiment and Sebastian Thrun’s ‘pivot’ (Chafkin). Supported learning better here.
Researching MOOCs can shed light on about participant behaviour, video styles, lengths and formats, design of activities & assessment
Слайд 68MOOCs can inform online learning design
Huge amount of data and research
that can be mined (Harvard & MIT released anonymised data)
Pedagogy enacted in public (pre MOOCs most courses hidden from all but registered students – even from other lecturers)
MOOCs in semi-formal and non-formal spaces so experiments tolerated
Слайд 69MOOCs inform classroom/on-campus learning design
MOOC materials used in blended and hybrid
models
MOOC materials used in flipped classroom models
MOOCs used in wrapped modes
Слайд 70For researchers in Africa…
It would be a missed opportunity not to
build knowledge around African contexts for MOOCs, online learning and classroom-based learning.
Opportunity is now to define forms of MOOCs, designs for MOOCs or how MOOCs inform the provision of more diverse and flexible forms of learning
Many models of MOOCs, not just one.
If not us, then who ☺?
Слайд 72Planning MOOCs
The six ‘P’s approach:
purpose
possibilities
pedagogy
platforms & partners
provisioning
process to roll out
Слайд 73Reading list
Czerniewicz, L; Deacon, A; Small, J and Walji, S (2014)
Developing world MOOCs: A curriculum view of the MOOC landscape, in Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies (JOGLTEP) Vol. 2, Issue 3, July 2014, Michigan State, available at http://joglep.com/files/7614/0622/4917/2._Developing_world_MOOCs.pdf
CILT MOOC Reading List on MOOCs in Africa http://goo.gl/Sfb2fH
Curation of MOOC resources: http://www.scoop.it/t/moocswatch
Слайд 74Contact
Laura.Czerniewicz@uct.ac.za
Andrew.Deacon@uct.ac.za
Janet.Small@uct.ac.za
Sukaina.Walji@uct.ac.za
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