Education 2020 presentation: How can the MOOC model be applied in the UAE

How can the MOOC model
be applied in the UAE?
Vance Stevens HCT/CERT/KBZAC Al Ain
Education 2020 Abu Dhabi UAE
http://educationabudhabi.com/conference.php

January 30, 2014
All my slides are at: http://slideshare.net/vances

What is a cMOOC (2008)
• Massive Open Online Course
• First one in 2008 CCK
https://sites.google.com/site/themoocguide/3-cck08---the-distributed-course

• The term MOOC was coined
in 2008 by Dave Cormier
• You should be familiar with
– George Siemens, connectivism
Siemens, G. (2004). Connectivism: A learning theory for the
digital age. Elearningspace. Retrieved from
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

– Stephen Downes on CCK
http://www.downes.ca/me/mybooks.htm

– Dave Cormier, rhizomatic learning
http://davecormier.com/edblog/2011/11/05/rhizomatic-learning-why-learn/
Vance Stevens Education2020 Jan 2014

Flipped xMOOCs (2011)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
http://sco.lt/6pPkcD


Talking about MOOCs
• Presenter
credentials
• Training vs. deep
learning
• xMOOCs vs.
cMOOCs
• xMOOCs in UAE
• cMOOC
framework
• Chaos
• cMOOCs in UAE

https://www.coursera.org/

My own approach = SMALL
Social media assisted language learning
• Webheads in Action
http://webheads.info

• EVO (Electronic Village
Online)
http://evosessions.pbworks.com

• Learning2gether
http://learning2gether.net

• MultiMOOC
http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GWVtAH2yfp5tL3bdMg5
8_M5Deq36Ot_jQ_w8rflsGuA/edit#heading=h.wwfgxw6e65fd

MultiMOOC is a course about MOOCs
(but it’s not a MOOC)

http://gplus.to/multimooc

Training vs. Learning
I train SCUBA diving

My students LEARN English
• I don’t TEACH it – I can’t!

http://tesl-ej.org/ej28/int.html

 xMOOCs and cMOOCs 
We must distinguish training from deeper learning
• Coursera
• CCK08
• EdX
• Rhizomatic Learning
• Udacity

http://www.connectivistmoocs.org/

xMOOCs

https://www.edx.org/course-list
https://www.udacity.com/courses#!/All

xMOOCs in UAE
http://prezi.com/fsonhifqdsjx/integrated-mooc/

Tamilselvan Mahalingam MOOC at HCT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oslsaj0iHsU

The cMOOC Framework
https://sites.google.com/si
te/themoocguide/3-cck08--the-distributed-course


What is Chaos?

Benoit Mandelbrot and fractal diagrams
from an images.google.com advanced search licensed for
‘free to use or share’

Chaos Theory

Downes on Chaos
• “What we see is
chaos”
• From this
YouTube
Noves maneres
daprendre i
treballar en la
societat xarxa.
Stephen Downes

http://youtu.be/wyaeTvGQDsA


Siemens on Chaos

Howard Reingold interviews George Siemens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMfipxhT_Co&feature=related

Siemens on Chaos
"I’m not aware of any research actually that says linear
structure produces better outcomes than more chaotic
meandering structure. Our intent … is to argue that
– the experience of learning, making sense of that chaos, is
actually the heart of the learning experience,
– but if an instructor makes sense of that chaos for you and gives
you all the readings and sets the full path in place for you then

• you are eviscerating the learner’s experience
• because now you’ve made sense of them and all you’ve told them is
walk the path that I’ve formed.

– When it comes to complexity I’m a great fan of letting learner’s
hack their way through that path and getting the value of that
learning experience and that sense-making process.”


Chaos Navigation

http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/wiaoc2007help.htm

Intuitive chaos navigation

http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=tDHgQeSbHR3fcvN81EHnxQQ&sheet=oaw

What do learners need
In an era of accelerating change?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVQ1ULfQawk

Thomas and Brown (2011)
A New Culture of Learning
Teaching someone to fish
helpful to extent that
• fish stocks last and that
• radically new techniques
for catching them won’t
be required in his lifetime


Coping with chaos requires
• Strategies
• Literacies skills
• A network
= Connectivism

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37794987@N00/6313423840/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

How do we inculcate these skills
in young learners?
• We have to learn them
ourselves
• How do we do that?

http://taedtech.ning.com

http://www.iatefl.org/webinars

http://learning2gether.net/about/

http://evosessions.pbworks.com/

Avoiding chaos in (language) classes
A good
thing?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldendragon613/250121794/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Language is a chaotic problem

http://youtu.be/N7oz366X0-8

MOOCs
• According to Cormier, MOOCs address the left
side of Cynefin quadrant

http://learning2gether.net/2013/01/20/dave-cormier-discusses-cmooc-and-multimooc-co/

Serendipitous Learning in MOOCs

http://evomlit.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/revisiting-the-question-of-tagging/

Understanding MOOCs is Ineffable
https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomaticlearning-the-community-is-the-curriculum/

http://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/rhizo14-opml-feedlist/

How is chaos resolved?
• Conversations
• Connections
• Coping with chaos
– Orient
– Declare
– Network
– Cluster
– Focus

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communitie
s/108458862109297898812

From Success in a MOOC (Dave Cormier) http://youtu.be/r8avYQ5ZqM0

My own context
• I teach
pilot cadets
18-20 years
old
• Not a good
candidate
for cMOOC

http://learning2gether.net/2013/12/11/contacting-delin-and-her-students-at-taiwan-air-force-academy-in-bbc-elluminate/

Practical Projects?
Collaboration - Taiwan and KBZ Air Colleges

http://learning2gether.net/2013/12/11/contacting-delin-and-her-students-at-taiwan-air-forceacademy-in-bbc-elluminate/

Drones for Schools

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117228629115025838704

PD within the UAE
TESOL Arabia efforts
• chapter events http://www.tesolarabia.net/ta/
• TAEDTECH http://taedtech.ning.com
EdTech Mojo (a new one)

Vance Stevens January 2014

EdTech Mojo
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Edtechmojo/662114503840851


EdTech Mojo on Google+

http://gplus.to/edtechmojo

To resolve the present chaos
•
•
•
•

Rethink learning
Flip everything
Participate in MOOCs
Join colleagues
regularly online
• Join and form
communities of
practice
• Empower your
students to be creative
http://www.evoluzination.com/2014/01/talking-about-wearables-with-ieee.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/3951143570/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en

Thank You
These slides with hyperlinks
hopefully preserved can be found at
http://slideshare.net/vances
Recording of talk Jan 26, 2014 on Chaos and Learning is online:
http://learning2gether.net/2014/01/26/vance-stevens-chaos-in-learning-and-resolving-that-chaos-through-networking/

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