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Session presented at a conference of the Academic and Research Libraries Division of the Minnesota Library Association. What is a MOOC, what is it like to take one, why are they important, and what do they have to do with libraries? This session will provide answers to these questions and give attendees a closer look through the presenter’s experience as a participant in seven different courses in 2012. Participants will be better prepared to discuss and make use of the opportunities and challenges these new learning communities present to our institutions. Come learn about the different kinds of MOOCs, how they can be used to learn new skills, how they implement and share open educational materials, and other topics to engage your colleagues and campus community in conversations about their future.
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The MOOChing LibrarianUsing Massive Online Open Courses for Professional Development and Campus
AdvocacyKent GerberBethel UniversityARLD Day April 26, 2013
Why We Should Care
MOOCs very nicely bring together all the strands that are in the public discourse about the broken university business model...and the extent to which MOOCs are a genuine disruptive technology Jim Michalko, OCLC Research MOOCs and Libraries[9:45]
Trends Represented
Open Education and ResourcesStephen Bell
Public Access to Education and KnowledgeBarbara Fister
Some Important Conversations
March 18-19 2013
How Should Libraries Respond?
1. Get the library involved2. Start talking/collaborating/sharing
between libraries3. Take MOOCs4. Get in front of licensing and access5. Create MOOCs
How Should Libraries Respond?
6. Support MOOC faculty7. Support MOOC students8. Create in-person support opportunities9. Re-assess library assumptions and practices
By the Numbers...
Early MOOCs 1,000s
After 2011 100,000s Richard Bowen / Flickr
Sharon Drummond / Flickr
Global Network
Learning Analytics
Software Development
Social MediaDeb Schultz / Flickr
Start - End Dates
Interaction with Instructor/Peers
Assessment
MOOCs compared to some of these models:
Two Major Categories
MOOC Pre-History
2002
2006
pre-2008 2008 2011 2012 2013 +
MOOC History
pre-2008 2008 2011 2012 2013 +
Connectivism = cMOOC
MOOC History
2008 2011 2012 2013 +
Online history of the development of the MOOC
Describes major elements of a MOOC
pre-2008
First MOOC - CCK08
pre-2008 2008 2011 2012 2013 +
First MOOC - CCK08
pre-2008 2008 2011 2012 2013 +
First MOOC - CCK08
pre-2008 2008 2011 2012 2013 +
MOOC History
Beginning of xMOOCs
pre-2008 2008 2011 2012 2013 +
MOOC History
pre-2008 2008 2011 2012 2013 +
pre-2008 2008 2011 2012 2013 +
Lukasz Strachanowski / Flickr
pre-2008 2008 2011 2012
Lukasz Strachanowski / Flickr
2013 +
August 29, 2010 to April 3, 2013,
MOOCs mentioned 225 times
(95 Articles, 130 blog posts)
"In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to exist."
pre-2008 2008 2011 2012
Lukasz Strachanowski / Flickr
2013 +
What Do We Do?Some Important Conversations
pre-2008 2008 2011 2012 2013 +
How Should Libraries Respond?
1. Get the library involved2. Start talking/collaborating/sharing
between libraries3. Take MOOCs4. Get in front of licensing and access5. Create MOOCs
How Should Libraries Respond?
6. Support MOOC faculty7. Support MOOC students8. Create in-person support opportunities9. Re-assess library assumptions and practices
Instructional Designers and MOOC Providers mention "there are great opportunities for libraries"
Open AccessBetter Indexing
Copyright/LicensingLocal community has access through Community CollegeMOOC Provider pays
Matriculated students enjoy full support from their institution's library; how can the MOOC provide similar support to the many thousands of students enrolled in the MOOC, the majority of which are not enrolled at the institution that is offering the course.
Presenter responded:"Being cut off from a Library and librarians is like not having Internet"
The MOOCs and Me
Sampling just checking things out
Auditing not as engaged but completing some content
Disengaging dive in at first, but then fall away
Completing engaged throughout and completed
Behaviors in MOOCs
Computer Science 101April 2012
Computer Science 101 Lecture 1 Introduction to Computing Principles 1:17 - 3:10
Completer!
Internet History, Technology, and Security
Video Lecture Sample
Internet History with Dr. ChuckFun Fact
Disengager
https://www.udacity.com/course/viewer#!/c-cs101/l-48299949/m-48687715
Disengager
Introduction to Databases
Introduction to Databases64,127 Registered 4,854 Completed
Sampler
Tale of Two MOOCshttp://www.edsocialmedia.com/2013/01/a-tale-of-two-moocs/
Structure of EDCMOOC
Structure of EDCMOOC
Each week do two of the following:
● Contribute to the discussion forums.● Blog your responses to the topic, putting #edcmooc in the
title. Submit your blog RSS feed so that your posts feed into our daily EDC MOOC News mashup.
● Set up or join a room in Synchtube to discuss the film clips in real time with your peers.
● Create an image or other visual representation of your response to the topic and post it in a social media space. Tag it with #edcmooc.
● Share your thoughts and links in Twitter, using the hashtag #edcmooc.
Reason I Invited Librarians and Teaching and Learning Technology to Experience Fundamentals of Online Education
This is a good opportunity to:
1. hone our skills as developers of online learning resources (like our Libguides, online tutorials, Moodle blocks, portions of bibliographic instruction sessions)
2. better understand how our mission relates to the mission of TLT.
3. understand the MOOC experience and articulate it to our students, faculty, and staff.
4. find open resources that we can use ourselves or suggest to our liaison departments.
Professional Development Developed Personal Learning Environment
Confidence in Computer Science conceptsLed to Library Technology Conference Presentation
More background information about how World Wide Web and Internet work
Campus Advocacy
Components of MOOCs and Online LearningAlternative Textbooks (Temple)Media Creation
Can Dialogue with Faculty and Administration at a crucial time
If you aren't making a MOOC?
Using MOOCs:
Super-textbooks
Content to "flip" the classroom
Partner with MOOC providersSan Jose State
MOOCReadings and Discussion
Student Projects
10 Weeks 4 Weeks
Wrapping a MOOC
MOOCAs a Module
4 Weeks 4 Weeks 4 Weeks
Student Projects
Intro Units
Vanderbilt
Queensland
Some suggestions
Collaborate with Instructional Designers, Academic Computing, Teaching and Learning Technology Units
Hold Open Access Week
Evaluate MOOCs as resources
Take a MOOC - http://www.openculture.com/free_certificate_courses
Some Early Results
Invitation to Co-present about MOOCs with Director of Teaching and Learning Technology in Fall
Participated in Faculty and Administration discussions with informed contribution
Pursuing supportive resources and services (media creation, institutional repository)
Links and Resources, Part 1Important Conversations Among Librarians and Instructional DesignersOCLC MOOCs and Libraries April 18-19, 2013Educause Learning and the MOOC April 3-4, 2013
Books/Documents on Change in Higher Education based on Technological / Societal PressuresInnovative University by Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring (Disruptive Innovation)The Cost Disease of Higher Education: Is Technology the Answer? Ithaka Report
Trends Represented by MOOCs Related to Trends in LibrariesMOOCs representing the Overall Trend of Openness - Library Journal 01/09/2013MOOCs Tied to Free Public Library Movement - Inside Higher Ed/Library Babel Fish 11/29/2012
TED Talks About MOOCs and their ImpactPeter Norvig The 100,000-Student Classroom (6:12) 06/2012Daphne Koller What We're Learning from Online Education (20:41) 08/2012
Links and Resources, Part 2MOOC History and ResourcesMOOC Guide and History (by Stephen Downes one of the people who coined the term MOOC)Open Culture (list of MOOCs to take) Student Personal Blog from First MOOC in 2008 - Connectivism and Connective KnowledgeChronicle of Higher Education Timeline of MOOC storiesMOOCs Transform Higher Education and Science Scientific American and Nature 03/13/2013
Journal Articles/Books for Deeper Analysis of Learning TheoryMaking Sense of MOOCs Journal of Interactive Media in Education (includes examples of how they plan to make money)Connectivism: A Theory for Learning in the Digital Age (foundation of cMOOCs)Atlas of New Librarianship by David Lankes (based on Conversation Theory which is closely related to Connectivism)
Articles Comparing the Two Types of MOOCs (cMOOCs and xMOOCs)Tale of Two MOOCs: Importance of Community in Online Learning 01/21/2013
MOOC Participation and BehaviorCompleted
Computer Science 101 - Coursera
Partially complete/ Disengaged
Internet History, Technology, and Security - Coursera
(very little complete)Human-Computer Interaction - Coursera
Computer Science 101 - Udacity - Search Engine with Python
Sampling
Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application - CourseraArticle about how this course went wrong. Doesn’t mention that the course was experimental and many MOOCs do not attempt to do groups.Inside Higher Ed write-up of the failure
Introduction to Databases - Class2go (now EdX)
E-Learning and Digital Cultures
Contact
Email [email protected]
Twitter http://twitter.com/ktkgerber
Blogs/Personal Learning Environments
Librarian Computer Sciencehttp://librariancs101.wordpress.comAtlibber: Academic Technology Librarian Bloggerhttp://atlibber.wordpress.com
