MOOC’S PRESENTATION

KAMATI VUYO

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TABLE OF CONTENTWHAT IS MOOCHISTORY OF MOOCHOW DOES MOOC WORKIMPORTANCE OF MOOCSDIFFERENT TYPES OF MOOC’SFIELD OF INTERESTTOPICS I WILL PERSUE IN MY FUTURE

MOOCS EXPERIENCE

WHAT IS A MOOC ?A massive open online course (MOOC) is a free Web-

based distance learning program that is designed for the participation of large numbers of geographically dispersed students

A MOOC may be patterned on a college or university course or may be less structured. Although MOOCs don't always offer academic credits, they provide education that may enable certification, employment or further studies

MOOCs generate massive quantities of data about learner behaviour, which can be used to understand cognitive growth and how to improve instruction

Massive Open Online Course

HISTORY OF MOOC’S

The first MOOC was launched in 2008 created by educators Stephen Downes and George Siemens.

The first MOOC was called “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge/2008” (CCK8)

Building off a for-credit course at the University of Manitoba, Canada, this was the first class designed behind acronym for “Mooc”

In 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Open Course Ware (OCW) became the first large collections of MOOC resources made available by a university

HISTORY OF MOOC’SIn 2012, MIT and Harvard spearheaded the edX

initiative for the promotion of MOOCs. The acronym MOC is pronounced with a long “oo”

sound, to rhyme with “kook” rather than “book”. The Oxford online dictionary added the term (as "Mooc") in August 2013.

HOW DOES MOOC’S WORK?

Aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web Provide interactive user fora that help build a community for students,

professors, and teaching assistants (TAs) Resemble real classroom experience and offer high quality classes for

everyone. Provides connections between the learners and the teacher Provides free courses online even though no official certificate is issued

after completion. MOOCs rely on traditional lecture approaches; students must self-

organize

study groups or discussion.

IMPORTANCE OF MOOC’SIt is a tuition-free course taught over the Web to a large number

of studentsOpen to anyone anywhere and easy to accessGives access to the teaching of a world class professor to

thousands of students at once.MOOCs aren’t bound by traditional university credentialing –

they can be offered with or without a certificate or “badge” indicating that a student has completed the course.

It also shifts conversation and dialogue about the content to a more diverse student population that could be worldwide – a community of learners

Work across time zone and boundaries

DIFFERENT TYPES OF MOOC’ScMOOC’SAcademics, Non profits, IndividualsConstructivist, Connectivists

approachMany-to-many (Dialogue, Peer to

peer interactions) Informal learningCollaborative, peer assessment Rich social mediaDrive towards opennessNetwork building, collaboration

xMOOC’S primarily based on interactive media,

such as lectures, videos and text. Adopted a more behaviourist pedagogical approach, with the emphasis on individual learning, rather than learning through peers

Major Universities

Behaviorist, Cognitive approach

More formal learning

Coordinated assessments and quizzes (often automated)

Open to join but not all content

Organized group work

FIELD OF INTEREST: LIFE SCIENCES MOOC’S (SCIENCES)

…FIELD OF INTEREST CONTINUESI am interested in Biology (Sciences mooc’s) because

I'm a life sciences (Biology) student teacher.I find the biology (Sciences mooc’s) more helpful and

interesting because it will help me to unpack and understand complex topics in biology, topics such as Molecules of life, Blood flow in the human heart and the plant cell internal identification of organelles

Such topics are very complex and requires a 3D dimensional view so that they can be understood, the Biology (sciences mooc’s) will make things easier

We live in a modern society were kids are more computer literate, exposing them to such types of mooc’s (Biology sciences Mooc’s) will make their learning easy

TOPICS I WILL PERSUE IN MY FUTURE MOOCS EXPERIENCE

Chemistry – Building Blocks of the WorldFlow of blood in the human heart Plant cell internal identification of organelles Microbiology and Forensic Science

REFERENCES

• Marques, J. (2013). Mooc’s news & reviews. Retrieved at http://moocnewsandreviews.com/a-short-history-of-moocs-and-distance-learning/

• Moshe, Y. (2012). Will MOOCs Destroy Academia. Retrieved at http://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/11/156587-will-moocs-destroy-academia/fulltext

• Riddle, R. (2012). MOOCs: What role do they have in higher education. Retrieved at http://cit.duke.edu/blog/2012/09/moocs-what-role-do-they-have-in-higher-education/