MOOCs at Southampton:

an overviewKate Dickens, Institute for Learning Innovation & Development (ILIaD), University of SouthamptonDr Lisa Harris, Deputy Director, Web Science Institute, University of Southampton14/06/16

2½ years … 12 courses 35 course runs 447,145 joiners 204,730 learners14/06/16

What?

2013 – Web Science 2014 – Exploring our Oceans; Archaeology of Portus; Developing Your Research Project; Shipwrecks & Submerged Worlds; Digital Marketing; Understanding Language 2015 – Contract Management; Wellington 1815; Agincourt 14152016 – Linked Data & the Semantic Web; Power of Social Media + …

Over the past 2½ years, the core project team, advised by the MOOC programme board, have supported over 40 academics and 15 PhD students to create content and have trained over 45 PhD students to be online facilitators. Over 320 videos & animations have been filmed & edited, many of which have also been used by Southampton students.14/06/16

How?

Learning designer

Assets & copyright

co-ordinator

MOOC ‘educators’

(Academic

s)

Legal team

Media Production

team

Online facilitators

(PhD students)

Facilitation co-

ordinator

LibraryMarketing

& Communic

a-tions

MOOC core project team

Project lead

Collaboration with the British Council

Understanding Language: Learning and Teaching170,663 joiners/79,372 learners so far from 4 runs. This course has been jointly developed with the British Council and is aimed at native and non-native speaking English language teachers.

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We are using the FutureLearn ‘student recruitment tool’ to encourage learners to sign up to our joint online MA. This has been overwhelmingly successful.

24 – 25/10/15

Encouraging quality applicants Developing Your Research ProjectThis course is aimed at 16-18 year olds undertaking an A level Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) or IB Extended Essay. Total 52,449/26,187 over all 5 runs. Successful penetration of new markets in UK & overseas.

Curriculum innovation through research-led teaching

• Our on campus MSc students (70) were asked to post 30 times in the platform (10 per week) and write blogposts reflecting on the learning experience of 1) participating and 2) blogging

• Digichamps & PhD students joining educators in weeklyvideo reflections 14/06/16 #FLdigital

Digital Marketing: Challenges & Insights• Showcases ground breaking research by

our PhD students and educators• Students as co-creators, facilitators and

active learners

Experiential learning for all

Encourage student reflection

Digichamps and MOOC Facilitators Hannah Watts & Amanda Herron recording the weekly feedback for our YouTube Channel with educators Lisa Harris and Mike Molesworth

• Power of Social Media MOOC integrated with an existing on-campus ‘Curriculum Innovation’ module

• Students posted a video on YouTube and the playlist shared with MOOC learners for feedback/discussion

• Students wrote a short reflection on the additional learning achieved

14/06/16 #Fldigital and #FLsocialmedia