presentation at conVerge13. This presentation looks at current options for an organisation to involve themselves in MOOCs. It looks at the history and development of MOOCs and explores the dialogue around MOOCS to develop better understanding of what they are and how they can be applied.

4. "I have a BA in music but really it's a major in
Youtube and a minor in classical piano."

5. • Origins
• Present
• Direction

6. Exercise
• In pairs talk with someone here. Have you
done a MOOC? Tell the other person about it.
• If you haven’t done one where would you
look?

7. Now tag yourself
#travel
#movies
#coffee
#sport

8. Definitions

9. WIKIPEDIA 2013
• A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course
aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the
web. In addition to traditional course materials such as
videos, readings and problem sets, MOOCs provide
interactive user forums that help build a community for the
students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs). MOOCs
are a recent development in distance education.[1]
• Although early MOOCs often emphasized open access
features, such as open licensing of content, open structure
and learning goals and connectivism, to promote the reuse
and remixing of resources, some notable newer MOOCs
use closed licenses for their course materials, while
maintaining free access for students

10. WIKIPEDIA 2012
• a course where the participants are
distributed and course materials are also
dispersed across the web', adding that 'this is
possible only if the course is open, and works
significantly better if the course is large. The
course is not a gathering, but rather a way of
connecting distributed instructors and
learners across a common topic or field of
discourse

11. ORIGIN
• The term MOOC originated in Canada. Dave
Cormier and Bryan Alexander coined the
acronym to describe an open online course at
the University of Manitoba designed by
George Siemens and Stephen Downes. The
course, Connectivism and Connective
Knowledge, was presented to 25 fee-paying
students on campus and 2,300 other students
from the general public who took the online
class free of charge

12. Other origins…
• McLuhan
• Open courseware
• Leigh Blackall

14. X…
• “an educational resource resembling a class,
that has assessment mechanisms and an
endpoint, that is all online, that is free to use
without admissions criteria and that involves
hundreds of students or more.”

15. Even the Oxford dictionary got it wrong…

16. MOOC
• A descriptive model of the types of learning,
of how people are already learning online,
gathered around a subject…

17. XMOOCs
• Coursera, Udacity, Edx
• (open2study)

18. xMOOC positives
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Free and vast reach
Innovation funding
Badging
Analytics
Credit

19. #stupidthingsxMOOCsdo
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Geographic collaboration
Term based
Clicks=enrolments=student numbers
Ignore social and collaborative benefits
Ignore how the web works (RSS, distributed)
Limit availability of content
Television with Quizzes
Networked textbook
Rockstars

20. Coursera…
• Does not have 5 million enrolments…

21. xMOOC outsourcing
• Just because you outsource your MOOC
activity doesn’t mean you are in the game.

22. Is it good for us?

23. The price/value of eggs…

24. What do you prefer
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Free Range?
Battery?
Independent brand?
Supermarket brand?
Free range and organic?
Biodynamic…?

25. Would you eat a GM egg?

26. Xcanola

27. Xcanola
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Glow bright on the horizon
Repeatability en masse
Hard to avoid
Production yield
Nutritional value???

28. cMOOCs
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Open social networks
Syndication, aggregation, curation
Students contribute content
Open Educational Resources (OERs)

29. Cseed savers

30. Cseed savers
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Value of natural heritage
Nature in how we naturally learn
Community
Open sharing
Richer and more varied pedagogy
Warm and fuzzy

31. Revolutionary…
• Both x and c MOOCs are here to stay
• And there are hybrids...

33. easy

34. pathways

35. Social

36. Classroom

37. Open2study
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Genius design (easy…)
48 subjects 2013
100k students in 6 Mo
25% completion and pass rates (unlike most
xMOOCs which are at about 7%)
• Worthy attempt to integrate both social
aspects of cMOOCs with scale of xMOOCs
• Responsive to feedback

38. RMIT Photography

42. Students or Audience? Teachers or
Presenters?

43. a continuum
TV
xMOOC
LMS
SOCIAL
PLATFORM
cMOOC

44. open2study
TV
LMS
SOCIAL
PLATFORM

45. SOCIAL
PLATFORM
TV
LMS

46. SOCIAL
PLATFORM
c
x
TV
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Qualification level
Complexity
Teacher digital maturity
Student maturity
Student digital maturity

47. Where can you start?
• How much does it cost?
• Money is not a value…
• When you outsource MOOCs you give away
social capital
• LMS
• Social platforms (Elgg, Corus, Google+)

49. Fun: we’re going to the MOOCs

50. Howard Errey
howard.errey@rmit.edu.au
Twitter.com/howard61

51. REFERENCES
• http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_onli
ne_course 18/11/2013
• http://wwwjime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/viewArticle/201218/html
• http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/massivel
y-open-online-course-MOOC
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/862
0174342/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Mathieu
Plourde mathplourde on Flickr

52. REFERENCES
• http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition
/english/MOOC
• www.open2study.com
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/10
9675815220709436631
• https://plus.google.com/photos/1002787996
43331353620/albums/5939947031463044641

53. Photo Credits
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/43622352@N0
8/5618635252 Lee-ann Khoh on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/26811962@N0
5/3468717396 Steve Wilson on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/11540081@N0
5/2983197457 Nick J Webb on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/40143737@N0
2/4355598762 x-ray delta one on Flickr

54. Photo credits
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/72441891@N0
0/448636315 Liam on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/66606673@N0
0/450373034 cobalt123 on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/ze_valdi/70854
48293/sizes/o/ Ze.Valdi on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/28165389@N0
5/9006059807 by Colin Key on Flickr

55. Photo credits
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/7371031@N08
/4531740826 London Permaculture on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/35375520@N0
7/3599784525 Werner Kunz on Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/31157339@N0
0/3378519995 Fernando de Souza on Flickr