Professor Irena Papadopoulos

& Asanka Dayananda

Middlesex University

Doing a MOOC! Experiences, lessons learnt, and ‘badges’ gained

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01-12-14

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What is a MOOC?

MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE

1. Why?

Excited by the Philosophy which underpinned the MOOC movement

Excited by the possibilities of using the various technologies

Saw it as the vehicle of my current work – Culturally Competent Compassion

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2.

How & with

whom?

Had to learn fast about MOOCs

Asanka! Great helper

Amazing response and enthusiasm from many colleagues I called to help(both internal &external)

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Subject LibrarianJodie Ward

Subject LibrarianJodie Ward

Nurse - ActorsDorocia Preddie, Denise Creary,

Sara Velasco, Spiwe Jomole,

Nurse - ActorsDorocia Preddie, Denise Creary,

Sara Velasco, Spiwe Jomole,

Professor Irena PapadopoulosCourse Author

Learner Development Unit

Alex Pitt

Learner Development Unit

Alex Pitt

Copyright

Kate Vasili

Copyright

Kate Vasili

Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement (CAPE)

Alex Chapman, Angus Macdonald, Paul Smith, Asanka Dayananda, Louise Merlin, Celia Cozens,

John Parkinson

Animator

Tom Fagan

Animator

Tom Fagan

Literature ReviewSandra Connell

Literature ReviewSandra Connell

Team involved in creating the MOOC…

Team of Facilitators Team of Facilitators

3. The Challenges

Do we have a platform?

What do we do first? Marketing!!!...well, let’s publicise!

What do we do with the facilitators?

Enrolling

Technology

Supporting the novices & technophobes

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Looking for a platform…

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Our platform…enrolling/login

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Taster MOOC…

MOOC approach…

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Students…

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Online learning and collaboration/co-creation…

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Scenarios

Week Introductions and conclusions

Videos engaging learners….

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Tapping into Social Media…

4. The highlights

Enthusiasm from colleagues

Enthusiasm from healthcare professionals worldwide

The amazing entries by participants

The videos & animations

Reaching my ideal recruitment target of 100!!! And then 582!!!

5. What will we do different?

Be sure to have a platform!

Have marketing in place at the start

Give access to facilitators before the start of the course

Make the course 5+1 weeks

Have more webinars

Badges GainedPersonal and Professional Growth

Pride & Satisfaction

ConnectednessInternal & External

Recognition

Huge amount of data to help address the project questions

Aaah...making history...the Aaah...making history...the FIRST MDX MOOC!!!FIRST MDX MOOC!!!

6. Two

participants’ journey

http://www.powtoon.com/show/d2bmHp5aB2D/my-mooc-journey/

My MOOC Journey by Ans Luyben

6. Two

participants’ journey

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My MOOC journey by Lucero Lopez

My MOOC journey Mari Stormer

THANK YOUr.papadopoulos@mdx.ac.uk