how to mooc? – a pedagogical guideline for practitioners

„How to MOOC? - – A pedagogical guideline for practitioners“

Elke Lackner, Michael Kopp, Martin Ebner

Definitions

MOOC „Massive Open Online Course“

First „MOOC“ done by George Siemens („connectivism“)

Stephen Downes

„MOOC“ stands for

Massive = huge amount of learners Open = open source, open learning

Online = only in the World Wide Web Course = similar to a lecture

xMOOC

•  „x“ = „extension“ •  Harvard did in that way for the first time •  Very straight course form offered on a special

platform •  Sequential learning units, mostly done by at least one

short video (up to 15 minutes) and a short assessment afterwards

Behnam Taraghi, Martin Ebner, Sandra Schön (2013). Systeme im Einsatz WBT, LMS, E-Portfolio-Systeme, PLE und andere. In: Martin Ebner & Sandra Schön (Hrsg.), Lehrbuch für Lernen und Lehren mit Technologien (L3T). URL: http://l3t.eu/homepage/das-buch/ebook-2013/kapitel/o/id/137/name/systeme-im-einsatz

Typical xMOOC consits of:

•  course structure with learning targets, •  video lectures (recordings or new products), •  additional learning content according to the video

lectures •  asynchronous communication possibilities (e.g.

discussion forums) •  self-assessment according to the video lectures •  certificates for successful completion of the course •  information system that provides all these contents

Behnam Taraghi, Martin Ebner, Sandra Schön (2013). Systeme im Einsatz WBT, LMS, E-Portfolio-Systeme, PLE und andere. In: Martin Ebner & Sandra Schön (Hrsg.), Lehrbuch für Lernen und Lehren mit Technologien (L3T). URL: http://l3t.eu/homepage/das-buch/ebook-2013/kapitel/o/id/137/name/systeme-im-einsatz

Problems

•  Teacher to student interaction •  High drop out rate •  Grading, certificates, no ECTS? •  Financial aspects (platform, content, videos, ...) •  Quality aspects

xMOOCs in Austria

How to improve the quality of MOOCS?

„This research study strongly concentrates on developing a checklist for practitioners who would like to do an

xMOOC in the future by examining different xMOOCs and reflecting first experiences gathered through daily

work on MOOCs “

Seven main categories

1.  core requirements 2.  structure 3.  participant requirements 4.  assignments 5.  media design 6.  communication 7.  resources

For example category 5

All categories and subitems are listed in the appendix as well as in the conference proceeding

Discussion

Assistance: The checklist was done to support educators doing a first Massive Open Online Importance of the issues: The checklist is not an obligatory list. With other words, the educators or administrators have to decide if a listed issue is relevant for their courses Completeness: The checklist will never be finished, as forthcoming MOOCs will address new elements and carry out new technical, didactical or administrative ideas.

contact Martin Ebner | TU Graz | martin.ebner@tugraz.at

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Appendix

category 1

category 2

category 3

category 4

category 5

category 6

category 7