1. Thinking about
MOOC Design
Getting Started

2. MOOCs are different
(Sort of familiar but also quite unusual)

3. Start simply

4. Clear, concise goal
Analyze environmental issues and
disputes through a legal lens

5. Identify “Big Ideas”
Goal
Big Big Big
Idea 1 Idea 2 Idea 3

6. Ask...

7. What specific
understandings about
this big idea do
students need to have?
1

8. What common
misconceptions do
students tend to have
related to this big idea?
2

9. What provocative
questions will foster
inquiry, understanding
& transfer of learning?
3

10. Create a new course map

11. Tree map

12. Outline
Course Goal (150 characters)
Big Idea 1
• What 1 or 2 things about Big Idea 1 do students need to
understand?
✦ What stories can you tell to help students connect
emotionally & intellectually to the big idea & detailed
understanding?
• What common misconceptions do you expect for each
understanding?
✦ How might you give students the opportunity to
demonstrate and correct misconceptions?
• What provocative questions will help foster inquiry,
understanding & transfer of learning?

13. Table
Courtesy of Duke University: bit.ly/unitplanning

14. Sketch

15. Concept map

16. Tell us stories!

17. Very hypothetical
example

18. Find what works for you!
(But is different than the method you normally use to organize your content.)

19. Creativity involves breaking out
of established patterns in order
to look at things in a different way.
— Edward de Bono

20. CC-Licensed Image Credits
Slide 2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanschijndeljan/6892681295/, James Jordan
Slide 3: http://www.flickr.com/photos/69826987@N00/2226419650/, JanvanSchijndel