Massive, Open, Online Courses (MOOCs)

Jenni Hayman, Executive DirectorWide World Ed

For the 119th time, what is it?

Source: ©2013 Mathieu Plourde

What it is not…

Explorations of MOOC purposes…

• Higher education context• Adult education context, literacy, numeracy,

job skills• Corporate Training & Development

possibilities• K-12 context

Open Education Movements

• Open Education Resources• MIT Open Courseware• OpenLearn UK• Wikieducator• Open Courseware Consortium• UNESCO

Why develop a MOOC?

What does it take?

What does it look like?

• cMOOCs versus xMOOCs• Connection versus self-direction and

assessment• Examples…• Coursera, edX, Canvas, Desire2Learn, Moodle,

FutureLearn, Open2Study, ChangeMOOC, Complexity

MOOC Aggregators

• New ways to find MOOCs• Mooc.ca, Class Central, Open Culture, • Online Courses.com

What does it all mean?

Discussion

Contact Info:Jenni Hayman, Executive DirectorWide World Ed ~ www.wideworlded.orgdirector@wideworlded.org