Practical considerations of running a MOOC (Pat Lockley, Undergraduate Laws Programme)

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Worldwide Access | Opportunity | International Standards Practical Considerations of running a MOOC Pat Lockley Laws Developer University of London International Programmes (Laws)

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Presentation by Pat Lockley, Learning Systems Developer, University of London Undergraduate Laws Programme. MOOC: English Common Law (https://www.coursera.org/course/engcomlaw) Last year the University of London International Programmes launched four MOOCs on the Coursera platform and the report on their implementation was published in November (http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/mooc_report-2013.pdf). Since then, members of the teams who delivered these MOOCS have been asked many questions about their experiences so the Centre for Distance Education (www.cde.london.ac.uk) arranged a seminar to provide more information on the practicalities of how you actually set up and run such a course.

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Practical Considerations of running a MOOC

Pat LockleyLaws DeveloperUniversity of London International Programmes (Laws)

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MOOC taxonomies

Pictures : Public Domain

xMOOC cMOOC

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MOOC taxonomies

Pictures : Public Domain

Person

Networking

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MOOC taxonomies

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Carbon

Bond

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Chemistry 101

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/NaF.gifCreative Commons Share Alike Wdcf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Covalent.svgCreative Commons Share Alike King of Hearts

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Nodes, bonds or both?

Pictures : Public Domain

Probabilities of electrons being in a place?

Probabilities of the cohort working like this?

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So of our students

26,000 log in7,000 on the fora (at least once)900 on the Facebook page400 on Twitter200 on Google plus

8,500 (max) are “connected” of 26,000 (at least once)

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Resistance as dropouts and learning as current

I = V / R

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Analogy killed off

I = V / RDesire to learnKnowledge requiredExpectations

TimeUser InterfaceLanguageOther barriers

Number of students

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Not being able to scale is

Blowing a fuse?

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Or are we not providing enough current/content to ensure lightbulb moments...

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Single point of failure? Parallel Circuits?

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Closed system? Barriers to entry?

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The long tail

YoutubeSound Cloud

SlideshareSocial Media

The CloudOur own sites

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Our MOOC Structure

Coursera Site

Youtube Soundcloud

The CloudOur own sites

Social Media

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MOOC Structure for everyone

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Simple routes through things

The distance between any point is 1

Is this just good user interface design

How do you design an interface for content which can be anywhere

MOOC Literacy?

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Literacy as a barrier

Coursera courses taken previously

1st: This is my first Coursera

course

Ease of navigation through course

pages

1st: Very easy

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Whose MOOC is it anyway?

“This isn’t like other Coursera courses”Language used in education – midterm, finals, mock exams, formative assessment

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The Tube Poster says...

“the closest example I’ve experienced yet of a course functioning as both a

learning tool and brochure.”

http://moocnewsandreviews.com/a-review-of-courseras-english-common-law-mooc/#ixzz2pzfUfa4C

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Connecting content or people or both?

Topologies and PedagogiesMarketing Vs PedagogyRemoving time barriers / eventedness

The 4 Ps of Marketing – is the fifth P Pedagogy?

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Student differences

V / RA University QualificationA RefresherContinuing Professional DevelopmentFunNew skills

......And at scale? Impossible to know?

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Scale as Fordism

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Scale as Fordism

You can’t teach all of the people all of the timeOr

The system just doesn’t support that because it doesn’t scale

OrPyrrhic Victories

.....So is the experience the same for everyone?

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Improving the experience

Less functionality than a VLE – Quizzes, Video, Fora and HTML

Limited HTML layout options

Limited scheduled release

....limited because not there, not there yet, or not possible at scale?

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Starting out.....

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Day one.....

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By the end

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What happened?

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Breaking the mould

Peer Assessment / Learning outside of CourseraSocial Bookmarking outside of CourseraCourse note sharing outside of CourseraWeekly chats inside and outside of CourseraVideos inside and outside of CourseraAudios inside (sort of) and outside CourseraCourse reading inside (sort of) CourseraStaff praised for responding to questions

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Worthwhile.....?

Of students who actually logged in 18% finished

Placing content outside Coursera allows it to continue to teach

The Fake MOOC - http://lawsfolio.londoninternational.ac.uk/eclmooc/

Re-engineer success back into our provision