The pedagogy of MOOCs Tips and Tricks Tutorial: ‘All you need to know about MOOCs’ Hanneke Duisterwinkel h.j.g.duisterwinkel@tue.nl

Eindhoven University of Technology

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The TU/e vision on education

• The focus is on the student’s learning process • The lecturer facilitate that learning process

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TU/e and MOOCs

• 28th of APRIL 2014: Sports and Building Dynamics

• Fall 2014: Process Mining (big data)

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MOOC project team

MOOC Project Leader

Information Expertise Center

Communication Expertise Center Video production Educational

support ICT Services Data expertise Community engagement

Professor

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The characteristics of good learning are that it:

• Encourages reflection • Enables dialogue • Fosters collaboration • Applies theory learnt to practice • Creates a community of peers • Enables creativity • Motivates the learners

• *(Conole 2013)

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Principles of a MOOC

• Retrieval and testing for learning

• Mastery Learning

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Key ingredients of a MOOC

• Lectures • Communication • Assessments

• Note: a good course design is essential

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Video lectures

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Video lectures

• Screen-capture lectures • Video-recorded classes • Mini-lectures • Animated lectures • PowerPoint lectures with audio

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Tips and Tricks

• Keep it brief and to the point • Train the lecturer in presenting in front of the camera • Be really enthusiastic • Animate written text • Open strong • Practice

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Communication

• E-mail / announcements • Discussion forum • Google hangout • Social media • Meet-ups • Course Wiki

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Tips and Tricks

• Safe environment • Use students from earlier runs in your moderator

team • As a professor, take a back-seat role in the forum • Use weekly updates, Google hangout or meet-ups • No need to devote too much attention to negative

posts • Delete inappropriate posts

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Assessment

• Through video quizzes • Stand-alone quizzes • Programming assignments • Peer assessment

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Quizzes

• Radio (multiple choice) • Drop-down • Checkbox • Numeric • Multiple numeric • Short answer • Short answer (regular expression) • Multiple short answer (list) • Javascript • Grid & Likert style

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Assessment

• Through video quizzes • Stand-alone quizzes • Programming assignments • Peer assessment

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Tips and Tricks

• Make the assessment transparent for students • Have test questions checked • Use clear, well-structured rubrics • Don’t assess on English grammar • Make sure students practice their assessement skils • Be sure you can randomize your quizzes • Have a balanced grading policy

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Checklist for Lecturers

• What are the topics? • What are the learning objectives? • What are the criteria? • For whom is it primarily intended? • What is the workload? • Which assignment(s) will you use? • What is the grading policy? • What course material(s) will you use? • Do you have the copyright to use the materials? • How can you facilitate the learning process?

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Flip the classroom with MOOCs

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