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This presentation takes a short look at the benefits of MOOCs when working when designing courses for international learners.
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The Advantages of MOOCs for an International Learning Audience
By Inge de Waard
Setting the stage: remember…
Challenges of contemporary learning
• Knowledge turnover high => keeping expert learners / managers knowledge pioneers in their field of expertise
• Lifting subject matter experts to a higher level• Cross discipline• Trust and respect • Creating an expert community • Building a training iteration in-house• …
Why do I bring this presentation?
MobiMOOC experience:
About MobiMOOC• Upcoming MobiMOOC 2012 (second roll out of the
course): open, online, free course on mLearning Course wiki (http://mobimooc.wikispaces.com/)
Course discussion group https://groups.google.com/group/mobimooc2012
• MobiMOOC 2011, first run: April-May 2011• 3 week course covering 10 mLearning topics
chosen by the future participants• If you want to join, select your favorite topic via
this online poll: • http://
fs10.formsite.com/formulierenITG/form216/index.html
Tweets were sent with #mobimooc hashtag
MobiMOOC Statistics
Participants joined the Google group
Discussion threads started
mLearning links shared on Delicious
556
1827
1123
335
10%28%
25%22%
15% 61-7051-6041-5031-4021-30
Participants by Age
43%57%
Participants by Gender
Female
Male
Tested with face to face colleagues
MobiMOOC and Knowledge Transfer
Learned from insights from participants in other fields of expertise
Knowledge transfer: ideas tested with virtual communities
Tested with friends
Tested with classmates
92.5%
77.5%
67.5%
50%
25%
MOOCs: Appropriateness and Affinity
Of active participants said the MOOC format was appropriate for their learning communities
Of active participants connected with other participants to collaborate on projects after MobiMOOC
90%
42.5%
Temporal independence
Why Mobile?
Accessed MobiMOOC via mobile
Location independence
Thought MOOCs could be followed entirely via mobile
77.5%
61.3%
56.8%
55%
The MobiMOOC Research Team
C. Osvaldo RodriguezBuenos Aires, Argentina
Apostolos KoutropoulosBoston, MassachusettsUSA
Nilgün Özdamar KeskinEskişehir-Turkey
Inge de WaardBelgium
Rebecca HogueOttawa, OntarioCanada
Michael Sean GallagherSeoul, Korea
Sean C. AbajianNorthridge, California, USA
Measuring impact - the multiplicator effect with unexpected surplus’s (later reading)
• MobiMOOC research team became a reality: due to a call to action to collaborate on a paper, seven MobiMOOC participants grouped together to become a research team (open science). The run up to this and the current results (two published papers, one paper in pre-published state, two presentations) will be shared.
• Participants adding to the course: crowdmap, analyzing tweets, adding lists to mobile resources that were relevant to the weekly topic at hand…
• People using MobiMOOC knowledge for their professional purposes (e.g. a participant used it to get a project for UK museum, mobile health research and development center in Argentina was set up, a health education MOOC is being organized by former participants of MobiMOOC 2011).
• Institutions picking up the MOOC concept: US (San Francisco) start with language MOOC, Geoff Stead from mobile cell at Cambridge, UK distilled all the resources for dissemination at Cambridge and beyond, South Africa is now building an International Online Mobile Curriculum with MOOC idea, UK higher education invited the MobiMOOC organizer and UK facilitators to prepare a MOOC workshop to see how MOOC’s can benefit higher education in UK.
MOOC history
MOOC history
Natural learning
realm
MOOC design
Cost benefit & ROI
Freestyle
12
3
History2007 – the Wiley wiki
An Open Course based in a wiki
Participants from around the world contributed to the creation of the course
2007: Alec CourosSocial Media and Open Education
An Open Course based in a wiki
Participants from around the world contributed to the creation of the course
Downes & Siemens, CCK08
Connectivism as core theoryPrinciples of connectivism:• Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of
opinions.• Learning is a process of connecting
information sources.• Learning may reside in non-human
appliances.• Capacity to know more is more critical than
what is currently known• Nurturing and maintaining connections is
needed to facilitate continual learning.• Ability to see connections between fields,
ideas, and concepts is a core skill.• Decision-making is itself a learning process.
George Siemens (2005 – Connectivism - a learning theory for the digital age)
The time is now: MOOC examples
100.000 learners!
The time is now, the audience is here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc
Natural learning environment
MOOC history
Natural learning
realm
MOOC design
Cost benefit & ROI
Freestyle
12
3
Creating a natural human learning environment
How do we learn?
Dating back to …
Around the campfire – dialogues and narratives
Socrates (and the Indian school)
Discussion for reflection and mutual knowledge enhancement
Network connections are key
One person is not enough, the team = network makes the genius = strength
By following discussions, key thinkers become visible
Self-regulated learning & PLE:create your knowledge
You know yourself, you learn, at your pace and with your criteria
This creates your space in the network
Collaboratively written pointers provided by the MobiMOOC participants• Use the course to your advantage! You know where you want to go, ask relevant
help.• Select between the abundance of resources. • Plan which type of participant you want to be (lurker, intermediate, active)• Develop a mental filter: you do not need to reply to everyone, skim discussions
and choose to reply on what is of interest to you.• Get to the point: be short (max 250 words) and respectful in your
discussions/questions/answers. This will save time for everyone.• Use descriptive titles in your discussion threads: this allows people to
immediately anticipate where you are going with your message.• Connect with participants working on the same topic.• Check your e-mail digest in the google group section 'edit my membership'.• Pace yourself to keep motivated. • Dare to take time off.• The most important idea behind self-regulated learning is: Make the course Work
for YOU!
Tips for coping with the abundance of resources in MOOCs
Bringing it together in the Cloud
Their knowledge + your knowledge = our learning network
MOOC Design
MOOC history
Natural learning
realm
MOOC design
Cost benefit & ROI
Freestyle
12
3
MOOC Design
Core discussion
Syllabus Course anchor
Social media tools
Ubiquity
The core of the courseCourse outline and expectations
Central discussion starting and meeting point
Select relevant tools with the right educational benefits and extra’s.
Mobile enabled social media tool
Why use it Knowledge Age Challenge Addressed
Blogs (Examples: wordpress, blogger, posterous)
To reflect on what is learned, or what the learner thinks is of importance.Keeping a learning archive.Reflecting on the learning itself.Commenting on content.
Self-regulated learning.Lifelong Learning.Becoming active, critical content producer. .
Discussion enabler: Listserv (Examples: google groups, yahoo groups)
This type of online tool uses e-mail to keep everyone informed. With many of the listserve’s you can choose how you want your mails to be delivered (e-mail digest: e.g. immediate, once a day, once a week), which adds to self-regulated learning. Generating and maintaining discussions.Getting a group feeling going via dialogue.
Enabling dialogue.Collaboration.Self-regulated learning. Informal learning.
Social Networking (examples: Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn)
Building a network of people that can add to the knowledge creation of the learner.
Enables networking. Collaboration.Enabling dialogue. Informal learning.Becoming active, critical content producer.
Link to Google document with more social media tools
Ensure Ubiquity
The coordinator & facilitators keep everyone extra motivated
• Everyone knows her/his role and the challenges of a MOOC (chaos, overload)
• Facilitators are guides on the side• Round up mails are provided• Keeping people motivated by connecting and
keeping informed and course oriented• Provide guidance for self-regulated learning.
Cost benefit: Return on Investment
MOOC history
Natural learning
realm
MOOC design
Cost benefit & ROI
Freestyle
12
3
Cost benefit / Return on investment?
In a knowledge age, securing knowledge growth is your investment for success.
The free and open cloud
• Setting up => no cost (if in the open, can be limited to ‘members’ of learning spaces)
Training working hours
We are in a financial crisis, but not a mental one.The cost of the training hours that would otherwise be working hours
Provide time for reflection and implementation
Return on investment
• Authentic learning: build activities that immediately relate to learner environment, this way the result can be embedded and cost is in some way reduced thanks to a usable result
Keeping the competitive edge
• Work force or employees and learners on top of their field => competitive edge
Digital literacy is essential
Raising digital literacy with emerging tools increases the learners capacity to function in todays connected world
Most people use it, but … how?!We can improve their use.
Wrapping up
MOOC history
Natural learning
realm
MOOC design
Cost benefit & ROI
MobiMOOC
real ex1
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Call for action
Join a MOOC (e.g. the next MobiMOOC 10 – 30 September 2012, become a member of the
MobiMOOC google group here) or more challenging: let us know where to find your MOOC!
Let’s make this work for all of us!
Questions and reflections.Simple, cloud, elements, support social learner dynamics.
Contact
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