the learner driven 360 to drive success in moocs

The learner driven 360 to drive success in MOOCsSheila MacNeill, Paige Cuff, Helen Crump and Penny Bentley, Iwona Gniadek, Briar Jamieson,Yishay Mor – ALT-C, September 2014

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Session Overview

Background and overview

Discussion

Sharing our signals of success

Discussion

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Design

cMOOC Learning Design

pMOOC project based activities

Team lead delivery

Open content, open delivery, open sharing

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Places and Spaces

All the C’s

Confusion

Chaos

Context

Communication

Collaboration

Completion

Discussion

Have you had similar experiences in MOOCs?

After the MOOC

How we started to define our own measures of success

It started with a tweet

Back in familiar spaces

#oldsmoop

http://bit.ly/1nj8ona http://bit.ly/LZdppk

What could we meaningfully share?

We propose an alternative evaluation, one that considers the individual learners’ measures of success and perception of the success of their learning.

Research Questions

How do learners define success in a MOOC?

To what extent do connection, self-efficacy and self-directed strategies facilitate learning in a MOOC?

Cloudworks, purple dots, tea and biscuits

Reflecting Individually

Collectively

Openly

http://bit.ly/1qRD4gK

Collaborative Auto Ethnography

Defining Success

The Role of Connection in Achieving Learning

Self-Efficacy as a Function of Experience

Self-Direction and Adaptation

Defining Success

“The authors variably define success as they intended to learn different things and differently adapted the experience to meet their context and their needs.”

http://bit.ly/1g6Cvgj

Helen: “Locating [a project partner] and realising that we had corresponding aims was as an important support for learning in the complex environment of OLDSMOOC.”

“By disclosing small snippets of personal information you can reach out and invite contact.”

The Role of Connection in Achieving Learning

“I jumped in because I am so at home with this technology its like picking up the phone for me”

Self-Efficacy as a Function of Experience

Self-Direction and Adaptation

Read all about it!

http://bit.ly/1ovxvTz

Auto ethnography an antidote to big data?

http://bit.ly/1qg6fxz

Refresh and extend the conversation

#oldsmoop

Penny Bentley @penpln, Australia

Helen Crump @crumphelen, Ireland

Paige Cuffe @paigecuffe, UK

Briar Jamieson @mbjamieson, Canada

Iwona Gniadek @yvetteinmb, Canada

Sheila MacNeill @sheilmcn, UK

Yishay Mor @yishaym, UK