Presentation at The 10th eLearning and Software for Education Conference, April 2014, Bucharest

1. „How to MOOC? -
– A pedagogical guideline for practitioners“
Elke Lackner, Michael Kopp, Martin Ebner

2. Definitions

3. MOOC
„Massive Open Online Course“

4. First „MOOC“ done by
George Siemens („connectivism“)
Stephen Downes

5. „MOOC“ stands for
Massive = huge amount of learners
Open = open source, open learning
Online = only in the World Wide Web
Course = similar to a lecture

6. xMOOC
• „x“ = „extension“
• Harvard did in that way for the first time
• Very straight course form offered on a special
platform
• Sequential learning units, mostly done by at least one
short video (up to 15 minutes) and a short assessment
afterwards
Behnam Taraghi, Martin Ebner, Sandra Schön (2013). Systeme im Einsatz
WBT, LMS, E-Portfolio-Systeme, PLE und andere. In: Martin Ebner & Sandra Schön (Hrsg.), Lehrbuch für Lernen und
Lehren mit Technologien (L3T). URL:
http://l3t.eu/homepage/das-buch/ebook-2013/kapitel/o/id/137/name/systeme-im-einsatz

7. Typical xMOOC consits of:
• course structure with learning targets,
• video lectures (recordings or new products),
• additional learning content according to the video
lectures
• asynchronous communication possibilities (e.g.
discussion forums)
• self-assessment according to the video lectures
• certificates for successful completion of the course
• information system that provides all these contents
Behnam Taraghi, Martin Ebner, Sandra Schön (2013). Systeme im Einsatz
WBT, LMS, E-Portfolio-Systeme, PLE und andere. In: Martin Ebner & Sandra Schön (Hrsg.), Lehrbuch für Lernen und
Lehren mit Technologien (L3T). URL:
http://l3t.eu/homepage/das-buch/ebook-2013/kapitel/o/id/137/name/systeme-im-einsatz

8. Problems
• Teacher to student interaction
• High drop out rate
• Grading, certificates, no ECTS?
• Financial aspects (platform, content, videos, ...)
• Quality aspects

9. xMOOCs in Austria

12. How to improve the quality of MOOCS?

13. „This research study strongly concentrates on developing
a checklist for practitioners who would like to do an
xMOOC in the future by examining different xMOOCs
and reflecting first experiences gathered through daily
work on MOOCs “

14. Seven main categories
1. core requirements
2. structure
3. participant requirements
4. assignments
5. media design
6. communication
7. resources

15. For example category 5
All categories and subitems are listed in the appendix as well as in the conference proceeding

16. Discussion

17. Assistance: The checklist was done to support educators
doing a first Massive Open Online
Importance of the issues: The checklist is not an
obligatory list.With other words, the educators or
administrators have to decide if a listed issue is relevant
for their courses
Completeness: The checklist will never be finished, as
forthcoming MOOCs will address new elements and
carry out new technical, didactical or administrative
ideas.

18. contact
Martin Ebner | TU Graz |
martin.ebner@tugraz.at
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at

19. Appendix

20. category 1

21. category 2

22. category 3

23. category 4

24. category 5

25. category 6

26. category 7