Presentation given to the ALT Scotland SIG 20th June 2013 outlining the general MOOC platform ecosystem including 'MOOC platform as a service' from Coursera et al., and home grown solutions aligned to connectivist principles using WordPress. The talk highlights some of the particular features of the ALT ocTEL platform which uses WordPress with a number of existing plugins like FeedWordPress, bbPress, MailPress and theme customistion to create an agile course platform

1. ALT’s ocTEL MOOC experience: Designing the platform
Creating your own open online course using WordPress
Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey)
Linda Creanor
Grainne Hamilton (@grainnehamilton)
http://bit.ly/octelweb5

2.  The hinterland
 The platform
 The experience
 Open to general discussion/Q&A
What/how

3. THE HINTERLAND

4. MOOCs

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

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

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

8. “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

9. “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

10. http://mashe.hawksey.info
Open Source bespoke
MOOC platforms
“XBlock is a component
architecture for building
courseware.”
“the software and technology
we used to build our Power
Searching with Google online
course

11. Cmooc-ing

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

14. Do you speak...
* ...RSS?

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

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

20. THE PLATFORM

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

22. Course Reader

23. Course Reader

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

25. 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

26. bbPress (forums)

27. bbPress (forums)

28. MailPress

29. MailPress

30. MailPress

31. MailPress

32. 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

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

34. <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)
+...

35. THE EXPERIENCE

36. general discussion/Q&A
http://bit.ly/octelweb5