Teach Your Own MOOC Stealing the Best Ideas for Your Online and Blended Courses - Course Technology Computing Conference Presenter: Jeff Butterfield, Western Kentucky University MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) have burst on the higher-education stage in recent years and could be a potentially disruptive influence. MOOC developers are working aggressively to find effective ways to reach out to large groups of distributive students. Many of us are active with online and blended education and some of the MOOC's secrets are gems we can use in our own courses. Come learn about the current state of MOOC education and how you can adopt some of their best practices at your school!

1. Teach Your Own Mooc
Jeff Butterfield

2. What is a MOOC?
• MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course
• MOOCS seek to provide open access to college
courses for very large numbers of students
• Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_
course

3. Who Teaches MOOCs?
• Lots of schools are entering the MOOC space
• There is no reason that an individual faculty
member couldn’t develop and teach a MOOC
• Several large organizations are considered the
leaders in MOOC development

4. MOOC Providers
• Coursera
• eDX
• Udacity
• Udemy
• Khan Academy
– More Tutorial, Less MOOC
• Alison
• Canvas/Instructure
• Academic Earth
• OpenLearning
• Future Learn
• Peer 2 Peer University
• Saylor
• MOOEC

5. Where Can I Learn About MOOCs
• The Chronicle of Higher Education has a running
collection of new and information articles about
MOOCs. Start with these:
• http://chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-
Know-About/133475/
• http://www.educause.edu/library/massive-open-
online-course-mooc

6. Why Would I Want to Teach a MOOC?
• Have you taught some on-line courses before?
• What would those courses be like if you had 100,
1,000, 10,000 or 100,000 students in the class?
• Most of us probably won’t teach a Mega class…but
we may need to scale our classes (effectively) in the
face of changing economics.

7. Is There Something More Manageable?
• Many faculty are interested in teaching a SPOC
(“spook”)
• Smaller Private Online Course
• Bigger than their current courses
• Only open to enrolled students/prospective
students (not the entire world)

8. I Want to Learn How to Teach a MOOC
• MOOCs are a work in process. We are still learning
and inventing as we go
• One of the best ways to learn about MOOCs (and
lots of great ideas for your own classes) – is to sign
up for several MOOCs
• Try taking some from different providers