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The document discusses key considerations for planning a MOOC, including: 1) Planning a MOOC requires involvement from a team to collaborate on content creation, video production, and course maintenance. 2) Courses should be targeted towards a specific audience and geographic area, with content divided into short video and text chunks. 3) When creating open educational resources, materials can be adapted from existing online sources under appropriate licensing and with proper attribution. Significant time is needed to develop high-quality resources.
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- 1. #23keysmooc Module 2: Let’s plan a MOOC! Sílvia Simon C4D, UdG, silvia.simon@udg.edu, @silviasimonr Miquel DURAN C4D, UdG, miquel.duran@udg.edu, @miquelduran @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 2. Nonspontaneous generation • Why would you wish to build up a MOOC? • Possible yet not only answer: “I do not know, but I guess it will yield interesting results” • But is a MOOC an isolated thing? No! And it is not born overnight • Our experience with 5 different MOOCs (the GISOLR initiative – Science Open Learning and Research) @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 3. Involvement and motivation • There are many ways to be involved and to be motivated by a MOOC • One has to find just the proper reason to be happy with it • It is not just to “modify slightly” a moodle or other online course. Beware! @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 4. Collaboration, teamwork • A MOOC can be planned alone, but surely it is faster, easier (and more fun!) if done in collaboration within a team • Leadership vs. parallel teaming • On sustainability • Help from the university staff and technicians, especially with video production (this is very dependent of course) @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 5. A MOOC is a project • Yes, a MOOC is a project like any other • And it may require strategic planning, with objectives, tasks, scheduling, assessing and improving / a cycle • Use planning tools!! From brainstorming apps to just post-it notes @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 6. What we will need • Time (we mean... available, quality time) • A litte more time that we though initially • Even more time • Well... but within reasonable limits @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 7. We need time for... • Brainstorming, planning • Writing text • Building presentations • Producing and shooting Videos • Maitaining interest by students, correcting errors, improving on-the-spot • But... like any project. • Why don’t you think of this to be an actual research project? @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 8. Our Idea • Is our idea singular? • What does the MOOC bring to our (professional) life? • What can our MOOC deal with? • We need to be singular, to differentiate from others @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 9. Let’s consider... • Target audience • Target geographical area • Language • Knowledge advancement/depth vs professional deveopment @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 10. What if we’re copied? • Take it for granted: if you idea is good, you will be copied. • But being copied is a measure of success • Stay always one step ahead of others? it may be stressing at first, but then it becomes quite rewarding and less stressful @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 11. A real example: MOOC on Magic and Science • How did we have the idea? • When did we plan it? Walking • When did we write something down? In front of a paella • When did we generate actual OER’s? We’re still at it • When will it be offered? In MiriadaX, quite soon – we hope @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 12. Acknoledgment, recognition • There is still some lack of recognition, accounting, rewarding... and these are tough times for university academics • The main reward may be our own learning on distance learning and a different way of teaching – and the freedom of choosing the subject • And introducing ourselves to Open Knowledge • Becoming kind of entrepeneurs of teaching @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 13. Collaborating • Cohesionates a group of academics • Opens path to interuniversity collaboration • Creates new connections with new people abroad @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 14. Resources • Let’s see a MOOC this way: like a restaurant dish – – Food: Open Educationa Resources – Dish: The MOOC – Recipe: The program – The Chef: The MOOC leader • And of course: Restaurant’s customers: the students (note: this is an analogy! students are not at all customers! – or are they? @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 15. Open Resources • Like garbage at home: Recycle, Reuse, and perhaps even Reduce (entropy increases always!) • Use existing material (especially presentations and videos) is it is good and relevant! • KISS rule: keep it silly simple (another version available) • And remember: any resource you generate is subject to your reusing! @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 16. A MOOC is the web • The WWW has plenty of resources, good material – thinkg of resusing it. • But please respect atribution and permissions! • License CC-BY-SA is possible (atribution, sharealike) @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 17. Divide in chunks • Don’t creat long materials • Divide in chunks • Short videos • Clean material • Each module with a few submodules • Interconnect everything • Plan for resource reuse! @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 18. Which kind of OER? • Video is a key resource in MOOCs • But it is not always the most suitable resource • Text may be better • A presentation may be better • There are many types of videos! • Think before creating content! @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 19. You are the MOOC, too • Try to be involved in the MOOC personally • The importance of storytelling • Students like to see that you are human and close • Us your digital identify, strengthen your digital footpring. • You are you and your digital circumstances! @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 20. Your students are not perfect either • Your students may face difficulties: – Lack of digital skills – Lack of good internet connection – Lack of time – Needing encouragement – Dreaming of a fascinating course – Difficulty in managing expectations (don’t decieve them!) @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 21. What do others think about MOOC planning? • There are very good manuals to build up a MOOC, probably much better that our way of doing thins. Take a look at the wiki 23keys-2b • They may focus on actual hard work, or in strategic issues • Remember there are meetings on MOOCs, like #moocaton14 or #emoocs2014 at http://www.emoocs2014.eu @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 22. 3 key points to consider at start • Why we do it? • To whom is it targeted? • Which is the starting point? • And of course we still need – What is our MOOC about? – How are we going to organize it? – What will be students’ new competences • And what about empathy with MOOC participants? @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 23. Here is an example Color: from its Physics to its Perception • Find it in the course’w wiki at 23keys2-d • Just modules, submodules, main resource • Are there multiple pathways to learning? Multiple levels? Mulitple leaving points? Hopefully not, but what if we think of it? @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 24. Tips on sharing • Store OERs in the cloud: • PPTs: slideshare • Videos: youtube, vimeo • Text/pdfs: slideshare, issuu, ... @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 25. Tips on team working • Use instant messaging (e.g., whatsapp) for fast collaboration which may be forgotten • Use e-mail for more elaborate messages which otherwise are worth being preserved • Use the cloud: – Use cloud services (google drive, etherpad) for collabarative editing – Use cloud services for document sharing (google drive, dropbox, box.net, icloud) – but AGREE first on a particular one!! • Remember: A MOOC is the net, is the web – digital life • Set up regular, short team meetings - review challenges, milestones, scheduling, etc. @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 26. Tell the world! • Tell the world about your MOOC buildup: – tweet, facebook, blog... – Share your enticing experience! – Shoot developing videos! • Accept constructive criticism • You may be doing better that you think • You will do better that you think! @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 27. Practise Session 1 • Think of a MOOC! • Plan it! • Write down modules, submodules and OER’s, in a table • Don’t think yet in actual assessment, promotion, video producing or OER generation • Please get the broad idea though @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc
- 28. • beware of specific requirements – lab – coding exercises – wiseman: youtube is democracy – wikipedia – What happens when the course is over? – Who owns annotations, comments, etc.? – Thus: OERs – Flux – exercises – Annotations – hashtag, nom, comptes twitter etc / branding @silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc