High-Impact Practices & The Potential of

MOOCs

Cynthia L. Selfe, Scott DeWitt, Susan Delagrange, and Ben McCorkle

Teaching and Learning with High-Impact Practices11 April 2014 | Younkin Success Center

BACKGROUND

Recently, an instructional team from OSU implemented a Coursera-based writing MOOC, called “Rhetorical Composing.”

• 10-week course

• Peer review = cornerstone

• 33K enrollmentWRITING II: RHETORICAL COMPOSINGhttps://www.coursera.org/course/writing2

RHETORICAL COMPOSING: OVERVIEW

Main assignments include:• Initial literacy narrative

• Comparative analysis of other writers’ narratives

• Visually oriented PSA

• Research-oriented composition

Additional course elements:

• “Level Up” challenges

• Supplemental readings/viewings

• Open Source Resources

WEx (The Writers Exchange)

• Developed in-house

• Robust, meaningful peer review

• Describe - Assess - Suggest

• Data analytics dashboard

SCOTT DEWITTOn Writing Intensive Courses, Peer Review,

and WEx (The Writers Exchange)

CINDY SELFEOn Creating Diversity and Global Learning Communities in MOOCs

SUSAN DELAGRANGEOn Using MOOCs to Foster UndergraduateResearch and Community-Based Learning

QUESTIONS

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