AtLETyC – about MOOCs, 19.02.2016

AtLETyC Kick-Off MOOCs – massive open online courses

Jutta Pauschenwein ZML – Innovative Lernszenarien FH JOANNEUM, Graz, Austria

AtLETyC – about MOOCs, 19.02.2016

MOOCs

▪ Massive Open Online Course ▪ Many many many learners: 500 – 5000 – 50.000

– 200.000 - …. ▪ Openness: ▪ without fee ▪ no prior certificates needed ▪ open educational resources ▪ open learning processes including social media,

blogs, …

AtLETyC – about MOOCs, 19.02.2016

Principles of connectivism

George Siemens 2005 ▪ autonomy – diversity – openness –

connectivity

Activities of connectivismStephen Downes 2009, 2011, 2013 ▪ aggregate – remix – repurpose – feed forward

AtLETyC – about MOOCs, 19.02.2016

Types of MOOC pedagogy

cMOOC ▪ Connectivism: learning

via networking ▪ teachers give impulses ▪ questions instead of

answers ▪ autonomous learners ▪ diverse materials ▪ chaotic

xMOOC ▪ traditional

instructional design ▪ teachers as experts ▪ videos ▪ peer review ▪ online-exams ▪ automatic feedback ▪ a lot of structure

AtLETyC – about MOOCs, 19.02.2016

AtLETyC – about MOOCs, 19.02.2016

cope14 & cope15: facts

▪ 6 weeks in spring 2014 and 2015 ▪ 540 / 460 learners ▪ 330 / 390 students ▪ 15% / 42% of registered learners got a badge ▪ 2600 / 4100 comments on the website ▪ active / not so active groups in facebook and

google+

AtLETyC – about MOOCs, 19.02.2016

structure elements

▪ static website with content of the individual weeks – visible during the week and afterwards

▪ “short” content with videos, links, assignments as e-tivities (Gilly Salmon)

▪ blog posts which acompany and structure the learning process

▪ weekly video conference via Google hangout ▪ possibility to get a badge ▪ experts as facilitators and moderators ▪ learners’ materials

AtLETyC – about MOOCs, 19.02.2016

Let‘s take a look at cope15

http://www.cope15.at

AtLETyC – about MOOCs, 19.02.2016

Literatur

• Downes, Stephen (2009). Connectivism dynamics in communities. http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2009/02/connectivist-dynamics-in-communities.html [abgerufen am 8.7.2015]

• Downes, Stephen (2011). How this course works. http://change.mooc.ca/how.htm [abgerufen am 8.7.2015]

• Downes, Stephen (2013). The quality of massive open online courses. http://mooc.efquel.org/week-2-the-quality-of-massive-open-online-courses-by-stephen-downes/ [abgerufen am 8.7.2015]

• Salmon, G. (2012). E-moderating: The key to online teaching and learning. Routledge.

• Salmon, G. (2013). E-tivities: The key to active online learning. Routledge. • Siemens, George (2005). Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age,

International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, Vol 2, No 1, p3-10. http://www.itdl.org/journal/jan_05/jan_05.pdf [abgerufen am 8.7.2015]

• Siemens, G. (2012) ‘MOOCs are really a platform’ http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2012/07/25/moocs-are-really-a- platform [abgerufen am 8.7.2015]

• Weller, M. 2014. Battle for Open: How openness won and why it doesn't feel like victory. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bam [abgerufen am 8.7.2015]