Making MOOCs on a Budget
Pedagogies and CommunicationSustainable Interpersonal
Communication
Sustainable Interpersonal Communication
• Students-to-students– They will keep in touch and
communicate in multiple ways disregarding the MOOC team desires
• Staff-to-students– Platforms allow to send massive e-
mails every now and then– Platforms seldom have simple and
useful tools like twitter or facebook
Sustainable Interpersonal Communication
• Rational use of E-mail– E-mail has been declared dead many times...– But e-mail is more alive than ever
• E-mail is being used as center for– Notifications– Task management (along with calendar)
Sustainable Interpersonal Communication
• One may use:– Hangouts– Livestreaming + twitter
backchannel– Open discussion and forums– Clubs, groups and regional
meetups– Social networks– Contests
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Sustainable Interpersonal Communication
• Allow for students to answer other students’ questions
• Monitor unanswered questions• Correct minor errors and problems
Sustainable Interpersonal Communication
• Let the world know about student-student and student-staff interactions
• Use searchable and archiveable communication systems if possible: e.g., twitter, instagram. And public/open.
Video annotations• Youtube annotations• Open Video Annotations– http://www.openvideoannotation.org
On a budget...
• Saving time: Simple tools/social networks: twitter for text with some images; instagram for images with some text. Gmail + google services.
• Saving money: to manage twitter (several accounts), just use TweetDeck, free.
• Saving energy: to manage several social network accounts (write once, multiple publishing) spend some money in HootSuite.
Question open for discussion
• Question: do we need to stick to tools provided by the platform hosting our
MOOC?
Tell us about your opinion !
Thanks for your attention.
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