My Experience with Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and Distance Education
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
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Massive Open Online Courses(MOOCs)
Gráinne Conole, University of LeicesterDL Forum
26th March 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2012
ASCILITE Fellow 2012
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Outline
• What are they?• Evolving MOOC landscape• Design principles• Pros and Cons• The OLDS MOOC• Disaggregation of Education
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Image by James Cridland
100 million adults can’t afford university (UNESCO)
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What are they?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc
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Evolving MOOC landscape
• Online course with large-scale participation adopting open practices
• 2008 Connectivism and Connective Knowledge
• cMOOCs and xMOOCs• Key players: Coursera,
edX, Udacity• Now: FutureLearn and a
new Oz platformhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a2cEzsMEMY
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Design principles
• Aggregation• Remixing• Re-purposing• Feeding forward• Personalised • Multiple channels• No ‘right’ pathway
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14852568@N04/3363891963/
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FreeDistributed global community
Social inclusion
High dropout ratesLearning income not learning outcome
Marketing exercise
Pros and cons
http://alternative-educate.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/audio-ascilite-2012-great-debate-moocs.html
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http://www.olds.ac.uk/
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Resources Learning pathways
Support Accreditation
Disaggregation of education
http://openclipart.org/
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The OER movement
• Over ten years of the Open Educational Resource (OER) movement
• Hundreds of OER repositories worldwide
• Presence on iTunesU Podcasts - iTunes U
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The OPAL metromap
http://www.oer-quality.org/
Evaluation shows lack of uptake by teachers and learnersShift from development to community building and articulation of OER practice
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POERUP outputs
• An inventory of more than 300 OER initiatives http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Countries_with_OER_initiatives
• 11 country reports and 13 mini-reports http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Countries
• Comparative analysis of transversal OER initiatives• 7 in-depth case studies• 3 EU-wide policy papers
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State of the art in OER
• Builds on a UNESCO conference on HE (09)
• Discourse on policy and practice
• How do institutions reposition themselves in an information rich world where tools and resources are freely available?
http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=412
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Combating social exclusion
• Completely open• Free• Education for all• Easy to access and use• Crosses boundaries• Access to new knowledge
and expertise• Aggregation of resources• Sharing ideas and practice• Facilitates the
development of networks
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Learning pathways
• Guided pathways through materials
• Can promote different pedagogical approaches– Didactic– Constructivist– Situative– Connectivist
Collaborative Pedagogical Patterns
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Support
• Computer assisted• Peer support• Tutor support• Community support• Mentoring
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24289877@N02/5851058394/
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Accreditation
www.p2pu.org/en/Peer to Peer University
wikieducator.org/OER_university/OER University
http://openbadges.org/Mozilla badges
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Changing practices
• Nature of learning, teaching and research is changing
• It’s about– Harnessing new media– Adopting open practices
• New business models are emerging
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http://www.slideshare.net/GrainneConolehttp://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance
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