Sheila MacNeill

GCU Games On

Jisc/SHED Open Education Event, 24th November, 2014

From here . . . to here . . .

11 June 10 July

What actually happened

http://youtu.be/UVV-qIxwW1U (development timeline)

http://openeducation.blackboard.com/

http://www.gcu.ac.uk/gameson

Participation

Registrations: 211

Countries: 12 (excluding the UK)

Digital Badges issued: 174

Tweets: 424

Digital wishes: 107

• Female 63.636%

• Male 36.364%

• 15-17 0%

• 18-25 4.545%

• 26-45 36.364%

• 46-65 54.545%

• 66-80 0%

• 80+ 0%

• Unanswered 4.54%

Glasgow 36.364%

Scotland 36.364%

England, Wales or Northern Ireland

18.182%

Other Commonwealth country

4.545%

Non-Commonwealth country

4.545%

Vocational Qualification 13.636%

FE certificate/diploma 31.818%

Bachelors degree 45.455%

Masters degree 45.455%

Doctorate/PhD 9.091%

Not applicable 4.545%

Based on 10.4% response

Why did you decide to take part?

to learn more about the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow 9.091%

to share experiences and feel part of the Glasgow 2014 community 13.636%

to experience online learning at GCU 45.455%

to try out social media in a safe environment 4.545%

Other 27.273%

Motivation

“It is such a friendly atmosphere

and really helps bring the

Commonwealth Games alive

when you are at a distance. You

feel like you are there! The

medals are definitely addictive

too:)”

“Thanks to GCU for your GCU

Games On. It taught me a lot in a

fun way and I wanted everyone to

know it.”

“I really enjoyed this as a bit of fun. What I got out of it

most was seeing new blackboard system in operation and

it looks and feels very impressive.”

“I think looking at the Twitter feed this was spot on for

what it was trying to achieve. Much fun was had by all it

seems and the course gave a great scaffold to talk about

their experiences at the games.”

“I do know it is hard to pull together a learning experience

around an event like this and I guess that was weakness

of this approach. At times I think really perhaps due to

lack of substance or clear learning outcomes - the

learning design was a bit hit or miss - but I think you did

achieve outcome of getting folks to engage with learning

platform which was I think what it was about rather than

the content”

What did we learn?

• Event-based learning* is a viable model.

• There is a low cost alternative to the prevailing

MOOC £30-60k per course model.

• People love badges.

• Bb Open Education Platform is nice.

*OU Innovating Pedagogy Report 2014 http://bit.ly/1BM43Fv

sheila.macneill@gcu.ac.uk

l.creanor@gcu.ac.uk

j.emery@gcu.ac.uk