Slides used as part of ocTEL week 5 webinar. The session introduces the wider landscape of MOOC platforms before highlighting how the ocTEL platform was developed using the WordPress platform

1. Overview of MOOC platforms trends
Creating your own open online course using WordPress
Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey)
http://bit.ly/octelweb5

2.  First 30 minutes
 Overview of general trends in MOOC platforms
 Capturing the rhizomes of dotlife
 Behind the scenes of ocTEL (WordPress)
 Open to general discussion/Q&A
What/how

4. A. Yes
B. No
C. Don’t know
Q: Are you registered on ocTEL?

5. A. A course on Coursera, Udacity, edX
B. Another ‘MOOC’
C. None of above
D. Both A and B
E. Don’t know
Q: Have you ever registered for

6. MOOCs

7. MOOCs
Instructivist
• Centralised
– Content
– Quizzes
– Discussion

8. MOOCs
Instructivist Connectivist
• Centralised
– Content
– Quizzes
– Discussion
• De-centralised
– seed content
– Personal spaces
(Twitter, blogs …)
– Distributed networks

9. MOOCs
Instructivist Connectivist
• Centralised
– Content
– Quizzes
– Discussion
• De-centralised
– seed content
– Personal spaces
(Twitter, blogs …)
– Distributed networks

10. “revolutionising
conventional
models of formal
education.”
“a transformational
new partnership in
online education.”
“Higher
education is
broken with
increasingly
higher costs for
both students and
our society at
large.”
"Higher
education is
ripe for
innovation: it is
too expensive
and limited to a
few"
Adapted from David Kernohan, 2013
MOOCs As a service

11. “BlackBoard
CourseSites:
Move your courses
online free”
“Pearson OpenClass:
Break through to
learning at scale”
“Instructure Canvas:
Open online learning,
as defined by you”
platform As a service …
(which might be used for a
mooc)
Adapted from David Kernohan, 2013

12. Learning
without
platform or
place …

14. PLENK2010
CCK08
CCK09
CCK11
LAK11
PLN
MobiMOOC
DS106
eduMOOC
Change.MOOC
GBL MOOC
PHONAR
PICBOD
FSLT12
ocTEL
LAK13
MOOCMOOC
cMOOC Tools

15. Do you speak...
* ...RSS?

16. Blogs
LMS
Social
Bookmarking
Twitter &
Social media
Adapted from Siemens, 2012
Example cMooc Architecture

17. Black box
(aggregator)
Blogs
LMS
Social
Bookmarking
Twitter &
Social media
Adapted from Siemens, 2012
Example cMooc Architecture

18. Black box
(aggregator)
Blogs
LMS
Social
Bookmarking
Twitter &
Social media
Adapted from Siemens, 2012
Example cMooc Architecture

19. Black box
(aggregator)
Daily Alert
(email/RSS)
Central
store
Comments
Blogs
LMS
Social
Bookmarking
Twitter &
Social media
Adapted from Siemens, 2012
Example cMooc Architecture

21. SOME of the FEEDWORDPRESS Club
* DS106
* FSLT12/13
* H817open
* Edcmooc <--- coursera
* Octel
* Etmooc
* ???
* ??
* ?

22. octel
* Wordpress
+ Course reader
+ Feedwordpress
+ Bbpress (forums)
+ MailPress (newsletter)
* Twitter

23. Course Reader

24. Course Reader

25. Questions
...Questions about course reader?

26. FeedWordPRess
* If no Reg. Import Multiple
* Categories
* Blogs +plus+
* Keyword filter
(title & Body)

27. Tapping the rhizomes of dotlife:
Finding the feed
Delicious - http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/tag/octel?fancy=1
Diigo - https://groups.diigo.com/group/alt-octel/rss
Mendeley Group - http://www.mendeley.com/groups/3241271/octel/feed/
JISCMail - https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=OCTEL-PUBLIC&v=2.0
Google+ (via Feed+ Chrome App) -
https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbydByKOtcfKB8HFSgIXYspDUrlpMeKFLK9J-
he2ZwgSTifQFhZ6/exec?feedId=S30501691364
Scoop.it (via Feed+ Machine Chrome App) -
https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbylTVNp0Pu17AZkKhnulX9EK_W9Qu80h3ZpK3f89ujmTSxfBw8/
exec?feedId=S13511380747
Twitter Q&A (via TAGS) -
https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbyLu2s_3eKFVuc2kYzS5G9u5c4vWp8gUU3dKVHN-
qboidBeVdln/exec?output=rss
CC-BY An Phan Van

28. Questions
...Questions about FeedWordPRess?

29. bbPress (forums)

30. bbPress (forums)

31. Questions
... ...Questions about bbPress?

32. MailPress

33. MailPress

34. MailPress

35. MailPress

36. MailPress (Add-ons)
*Newsletter Newsletters : for posts
*Sync_wordpress_user Users :
synchronise with WordPress users
*Tracking_ga Tracking : mails activity to
your site with google analytics
*Batch_send Mails : Send them in batch
mode

37. Questions
... ...Questions about MailPress?

38. Twitter
*Archived in a Google Spreadsheet (TAGS)

39. Questions
...Questions abo.. ?

40. <Other>
*More http://mashe.hawksey.info/tag/octel/
+Individual resource submission
+Registering users and blogs
+Bulk user account creation
+Participant lists
+Forum activity
+Top contributors
+Intercom (CRM)
+...

42. Bag of Gold

43. Agile

44. general discussion/Q&A
Martin Hawksey
(@mhawksey)
http://mashe.hawksey.info
http://bit.ly/octelweb5