Adventures in Designing a MOOC with OER--STEMTech Denver, CO Nov. 2014
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Adventures in Designing a MOOC
Brenda M. Perea, Colorado Community College System
Instructional Design Project Manager
EXPECTED OUTCOMES…..HOPEFULLY
As a result of this session attendees will be able to:
• Understand the pedagogy of a MOOC
• Create a plan for designing a MOOC
• Locate resources to be used in a MOOC
• Brainstorm a plan for implementing a MOOC
• Understand the fluid nature of MOOC participants and the MOOC itself
NEW Versions of MOOCs• aMOOC
• MOOC-Ed
• SPOC
• “Wrapped” MOOC
• “White label” MOOC
• Mini-MOOC
• DOCC:
• Participatory meta-MOOC
• SMOC
• POOC
Who Takes MOOCs and Who Succeeds
Image from EduCause Infographic-crash course in MOOCs info graphic
We Selected to build a . . .
• sMOOC—smaller-Massive Online Open Course
Why. . . .• Part of our Statement of Work for the Trade Adjustment
Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT grant) we wanted to improve access to education while increasing certificate and degree completers.
• Industry request to accelerate the time frame for their employees to become certificate and degree completers.
• Provided with $0 to build the MOOC
MOOC Prep 101
What, why, when, who, how
Critical Evaluation of WHY a MOOC for Technical Math Skills
Focus of this MOOC is not on replacing traditional MAT108 course
• Tool to “refresh” their math skills to test out of MAT108
• what is the essential skill/knowledge does the Advanced Machining student need in regards to the 17 competencies?
• Critically evaluated the “must” cover
• measurements, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, graphs, and finance.
• Supplemental resource for struggling current students
Need to Recognize Challenges
• Launching a MOOC in a traditional community college semester based system
• Developing “buy-in” from existing math faculty to “accept” the MOOC vs. traditional semester course
• Completers passing at a certain level would be encouraged to “challenge test” out of MAT108-Technical Math
• What does this do to faculty FTE
Design Challenges
• Needed to be designed and launched within 6 months
• MOOC length 4-7 weeks?—settled for a 5 week course
• Designing micro-learning “chunks” tied to specific competencies
• Needed non-textbook based course material
• Required Content contextualized for Advanced Manufacturing
Technical bumps in the road
MOOC platform host
Which host willing to work with a college system that was
already under contract with an LMS ?
Canvas allowed flexibility
MOOC host requested us to change title and refine course description to appeal to a broader audience.
• Ideas on a “new” name was Career Math
• However, that was in direct conflict with an existing CCCS courses which might lead students to confuse the course with a credit bearing course
• Used Technical Math for Industry for title
Credits, Certificates, Credentials?
•Badges
•Development and a credentialing host
•Certificate
•What is acceptable?
•Completing all modules?
•Completing at 70%, 80%?
Development Cycle
Typical MOOC Module design
•Short
•Grandular
•Recursive
Content Designed to Create “Stickiness”• Each topic had a clear “golden nugget”
•Provide relevant content
• Embed the critical ideas throughout the content
•Provide visuals
• Facilitate connection or relationship to the content
Contextualized ContentElectro-Mechanical, Engineering, Machining and Welding Courses
EGT, ELT, MAC, CAD, MTEAED, AAA, CIS, CHE, EIC, ENY, GEY, HIS, MAN, MAT, PHY, PRO, WEL, WTG
Typical Online Look and Feel
Typical Micro Learning Lesson
Majority of Math Content
Why NROCWhen we reviewed the content within the 5E model • Application points• Show and tell and do• Association with stories• Recursive/repetition• Holistic
Essential vs. secondary and supporting contentLess is more
Finding Open Resources
Open Resources in Tech Math MOOC
CHAMP URL dashboardhttp://www.symbaloo.com/shared/AAAACMSNVS0AA42Agd4JvQ==
www.merlot.orgVideos: NROC, YouTube, Khan Academy and the Internet Archivehttp://open4us.org/find-oer/http://search.creativecommons.org/http://www.oercommons.org/Presentations: Slideshare
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative MOOC Resource List URL for this list: http://tinyurl.com/elimooc
Content OER go-to’s
• http://www.merlot.org/
• https://www.skillscommons.org
• http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
• http://dp.la/
• https://www.cteonline.org/
• https://www.khanacademy.org
• http://www.saylor.org/
• Cnx.org and OpenStax, http://cnx.org/
• YouTube
Beta MOOC
Passive Participant
Active Participant
Learn about interesting topics New Career or
skills for work
2-4 hours
Location of participants
Highest Level of Education
Western Europe
AsiaS. America
Age Group
N. America
45-54
What’s Next?
Badges
• Do we want badges for all modules?
• Or identify what skills are high priority, backwards design those skills to a competency, and award badge for competency?
Badges for skill attainment?
Resources
• https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B08f8ldKmmAGc3hPbWxQaTRjQjQ&usp=sharing
Webinars and Videos explaining TAACCCT Requirement for CC BY• http://vimeo.com/43142376
Links to Creative Commons Resources:• http://open4us.org/faq/• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/• http://open4us.org/resources/cc-by-license-implementation-deep-dive-resources/
CHAMP URL dashboard• http://www.symbaloo.com/shared/AAAACMSNVS0AA42Agd4JvQ==
License Chooser tool: • http://creativecommons.org/choose/
Other URLs:If anything is uploaded to the sites in the following web link, the are automatically attributed with a CC license: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/PublishFor the http://ampednh.com/ website http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/Creators
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