1. MOOC’S
PRESENTATION
KAMATI VUYO
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2. TABLE OF CONTENT
WHAT IS MOOC
HISTORY OF MOOC
HOW DOES MOOC WORK
IMPORTANCE OF MOOCS
DIFFERENT TYPES OF MOOC’S
FIELD OF INTEREST
TOPICS I WILL PERSUE IN MY FUTURE MOOCS
EXPERIENCE

3. WHAT IS A MOOC ?
A massive open online course (MOOC) is a free Webbased distance learning program that is designed for the
participation of large numbers of geographically dispersed
students
A MOOC may be patterned on a college or university course or
may be less structured. Although MOOCs don't always offer
academic credits, they provide education that may enable
certification, employment or further studies
MOOCs generate massive quantities of data about learner
behaviour, which can be used to understand cognitive growth
and how to improve instruction
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4. HISTORY OF MOOC’S
The first MOOC was launched in 2008 created by educators
Stephen Downes and George Siemens.
The first MOOC was called “Connectivism and Connective
Knowledge/2008” (CCK8)
 Building off a for-credit course at the University of
Manitoba, Canada, this was the first class designed behind
acronym for “Mooc”
In 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Open Course Ware (OCW) became the first large collections
of MOOC resources made available by a university

5. HISTORY OF MOOC’S
In 2012, MIT and Harvard spearheaded the edX initiative for
the promotion of MOOCs.
The acronym MOC is pronounced with a long “oo” sound, to
rhyme with “kook” rather than “book”. The Oxford online
dictionary added the term (as "Mooc") in August 2013.

6. HOW DOES MOOC’S WORK?
 Aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web
 Provide interactive user fora that help build a community for students,
professors, and teaching assistants (TAs)
 Resemble real classroom experience and offer high quality classes for
everyone.
 Provides connections between the learners and the teacher
 Provides free courses online even though no official certificate is issued after
completion.
 MOOCs rely on traditional lecture approaches; students must self-organize
study groups or discussion.

8. IMPORTANCE OF MOOC’S
 It is a tuition-free course taught over the Web to a large number of
students
 Open to anyone anywhere and easy to access
 Gives access to the teaching of a world class professor to thousands
of students at once.
 MOOCs aren’t bound by traditional university credentialing – they
can be offered with or without a certificate or “badge” indicating
that a student has completed the course.
 It also shifts conversation and dialogue about the content to a more
diverse student population that could be worldwide – a community
of learners
 Work across time zone and boundaries

9. DIFFERENT TYPES OF MOOC’S
cMOOC’S
 Academics, Non profits, Individuals
 Constructivist, Connectivists approach
 Many-to-many (Dialogue, Peer to peer
interactions)
 Informal learning
 Collaborative, peer assessment
 Rich social media
 Drive towards openness
 Network building, collaboration
xMOOC’S
 primarily based on interactive media,
such as lectures, videos and text.
Adopted a more behaviourist
pedagogical approach, with the
emphasis on individual learning,
rather than learning through peers
 Major Universities
 Behaviorist, Cognitive approach
 More formal learning
 Coordinated assessments and quizzes
(often automated)
 Open to join but not all content
 Organized group work

10. FIELD OF INTEREST: LIFE
SCIENCES MOOC’S (SCIENCES)

11. …FIELD OF INTEREST CONTINUES
I am interested in Biology (Sciences mooc’s) because I'm a
life sciences (Biology) student teacher.
I find the biology (Sciences mooc’s) more helpful and
interesting because it will help me to unpack and understand
complex topics in biology, topics such as Molecules of life,
Blood flow in the human heart and the plant cell internal
identification of organelles
Such topics are very complex and requires a 3D dimensional
view so that they can be understood, the Biology (sciences
mooc’s) will make things easier
We live in a modern society were kids are more computer
literate, exposing them to such types of mooc’s (Biology
sciences Mooc’s) will make their learning easy

12. TOPICS I WILL PERSUE IN MY FUTURE
MOOCS EXPERIENCE
Chemistry – Building Blocks of the World
Flow of blood in the human heart
Plant cell internal identification of organelles
Microbiology and Forensic Science

13. REFERENCES
• Marques, J. (2013). Mooc’s news & reviews. Retrieved at http://moocnewsandreviews.com/a-shorthistory-of-moocs-and-distance-learning/
• Moshe, Y. (2012). Will MOOCs Destroy Academia. Retrieved at
http://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/11/156587-will-moocs-destroy-academia/fulltext
• Riddle, R. (2012). MOOCs: What role do they have in higher education. Retrieved at
http://cit.duke.edu/blog/2012/09/moocs-what-role-do-they-have-in-higher-education/