2. Making MOOCs on a Budget
Pedagogies and Communication
Sustainable Interpersonal
Communication

3. Sustainable Interpersonal
Communication
• Students-to-students
– They will keep in touch and
communicate in multiple ways
disregarding the MOOC team desires
• Staff-to-students
– Platforms allow to send massive e-
mails every now and then
– Platforms seldom have simple and
useful tools like twitter or facebook

4. Sustainable Interpersonal
Communication
• Rational use of E-mail
– E-mail has been declared dead many times...
– But e-mail is more alive than ever
• E-mail is being used as center for
– Notifications
– Task management (along with calendar)

5. Sustainable Interpersonal
Communication
• One may use:
– Hangouts
– Livestreaming + twitter
backchannel
– Open discussion and forums
– Clubs, groups and regional
meetups
– Social networks
– Contests
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6. Sustainable Interpersonal
Communication
• Allow for students to answer other students’
questions
• Monitor unanswered questions
• Correct minor errors and problems

7. Sustainable Interpersonal
Communication
• Let the world know about student-student
and student-staff interactions
• Use searchable and archiveable
communication systems if possible: e.g.,
twitter, instagram. And public/open.

8. Video annotations
• Youtube annotations
• Open Video Annotations
– http://www.openvideoannotation.org

9. On a budget...
• Saving time: Simple tools/social networks:
twitter for text with some images; instagram
for images with some text. Gmail + google
services.
• Saving money: to manage twitter (several
accounts), just use TweetDeck, free.
• Saving energy: to manage several social
network accounts (write once, multiple
publishing) spend some money in HootSuite.

10. Question open for discussion
• Question: do we need to stick to tools
provided by the platform hosting our
MOOC?
Tell us about your opinion !

11. Thanks for your attention.