CourseChunks intro - 07-2018
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The document proposes rethinking online courses by breaking them into smaller "chunks" of content like articles, videos, and podcasts that can be explained and shared independently. It envisions a collaborative marketplace where anyone can create and explain chunks to build reputation as online educators. The website CourseChunks.com allows users to make, share, import, and recommend multimedia chunks to curate collections for teaching and learning.
CourseChunks intro - 07-2018
- 2. Why do online courses need to be thought of as one BIG single-unit (like older offline courses were)? Let’s re-think courses by breaking them into a thousand little pieces, and … Through a collaborative marketplace… let anyone try to explain each part, through a competitive and open source process of collaboration, building reputation for a new form of ‘teacher’ who is good at explaining hard-to-explain topics using digital story telling VISION:
- 3. Imagine… You come up with a new an clever way to explain a topic (combining a TED video, and an article)_ A professor from Harvard likes the way you made that Chunk, and imports it into their course You get the reputation (“As used in Harvard”!)
- 4. Chunks Little pieces of Course Content Small collections of articles, videos, podcasts, slides The minimum content required to explain a concept Can easily be imported into courses using our LMS integration or API (for developers)
- 5. Progress so far… 1. Social bookmarking tool 2. Ability to make “chunks” 3. Integration with Canvas LMS and an API for developers
- 6. Coming soon… 4. Reputation 5. Social Recommendations 6. AI Recommendations 7. Marketplace
- 10. Collaborate!
- 11. Copy and Remix!
- 12. Export your Courses Create collections of articles, books, videos, audio, podcasts, events and more… Export your chunks to your own website or course with our LMS Canvas integration and/or API (for developers)
- 13. We make it easy To put on your own websiteor, keep it on ours
- 18. LEARN With the API, developers can… 1. Add and Manage educational content 2. Allow teachers and students to share content 3. Combine YouTube, TED, Vimeo, Article, Podcasts and much more… 4. Create your own Learning Library for your website!
- 21. Our Team
- 23. Why do online courses need to be thought of as one BIG single-unit (like older offline courses were)? Let’s re-think courses by breaking them into a thousand little pieces, and … Through a collaborative marketplace… let anyone try to explain each part, through a competitive and open source process of collaboration, building reputation for a new form of ‘teacher’ who is good at explaining hard-to-explain topics using digital story telling VISION:
- 25. Curate your own bite-sized multimedia collections For whatever you are teaching or learning
- 26. With only one click… …keep similar content organized