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.
Practical considerations of running a MOOC (Pat Lockley, Undergraduate Laws Programme)
1. Practical Considerations of running a MOOC
Pat Lockley
Laws Developer
University of London International Programmes (Laws)
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6. Nodes, bonds or both?
Probabilities of electrons being in a place?
Probabilities of the cohort working like this?
Pictures : Public Domain
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7. So of our students
26,000 log in
7,000 on the fora (at least once)
900 on the Facebook page
400 on Twitter
200 on Google plus
8,500 (max) are “connected” of 26,000 (at least once)
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8. Resistance as dropouts and learning as current
I=V/R
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16. MOOC Structure for everyone
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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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-ofcourseras-english-common-law-mooc/#ixzz2pzfUfa4C
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21. Connecting content or people or both?
Topologies and Pedagogies
Marketing Vs Pedagogy
Removing time barriers / eventedness
The 4 Ps of Marketing – is the fifth P
Pedagogy?
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22. Student differences
V/R
A University Qualification
A Refresher
Continuing Professional Development
Fun
New skills
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to know?
24. Scale as Fordism
You can’t teach all of the people all of the time
Or
The system just doesn’t support that because it
doesn’t scale
Or
Pyrrhic Victories
.....So is the experience the same for everyone?
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25. 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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30. Breaking the mould
Peer Assessment / Learning outside of Coursera
Social Bookmarking outside of Coursera
Course note sharing outside of Coursera
Weekly chats inside and outside of Coursera
Videos inside and outside of Coursera
Audios inside (sort of) and outside Coursera
Course reading inside (sort of) Coursera
Staff praised for responding to questions
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31. 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
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