MultiMOOC applies connectivist and multiliteracies approaches to exploring recent developments and issues in open learning, and how these might apply to more conventional settings. The session is paced on Cormier’s 5 stages of MOOC participation: orient, declare, network, cluster, focus. Participants declare their personal goals for the course and trace their progress through eportfolios, or simply tagging blog posts and other online artifacts, and finally are awarded badges. Any reasonable level of participation earns a badge in the course. Co-moderators for 2014 were Vance Stevens, James Buckingham, and Ali Bostangioglu. This presentation was presented Apr 27 at the 7th VRT conference, http://www.virtual-round-table.com/events/multimooc

1. Vance Stevens
7th Virtual Round Table Online Conference
EVO Symposium
April 27, 2014

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3. What is MultiMOOC?
• It’s a community
• It’s an EVO
session
• It emulates a
cMOOC (not an
xMOOC)
• It’s NOT a MOOC
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4. So why call it MultiMOOC?
MultiMOOC derives from a succession of EVO sessions
(co-) moderated by Vance Stevens
• Webheads in Action (2002 ongoing)
• Various intervening
sessions; e.g.
Webpresence
(2005-2006)
http://www.tinyurl.com/4j8kb
• Multiliteracies
(2009-2012)
• MultiMOOC (2013-14)
http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com
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5. More Precursors to MultiMOOC
• English for Webheads 1998 – 2002 (link at URL below)
• Webheads in Action 2002 ongoing - http://webheads.info
• Webheads in Action Online Convergences 2005, 2007, 2009
• Learning2gether 2010 ongoing http://learning2gether.net/about/
• Multiliteracies 2004 to 2012 (archive at URL below)
• MultiMOOC 2013-2014 http://goodbyebutenberg.pbworks.com
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6. Underlying Philosophy
– To give participants an alternative perspective on
what it means to teach and learn
– To form and perpetuate communities and networks
• Appreciated by like-minded Coolaid aficionados
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• Experimental
• Reliant on chaos
• Designed or not designed
MultiMOOC and its precursors have always been

7. What’s in the Coolaid?
Over this time Vance has been
sipping frequently from the
Coolaid of Connectivism
• Siemens, 2004
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles
/connectivism.htm
• CCK 2008, 2009, 2011
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• Siemens and Rheingold, chaos in learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMfipxhT_Co
• Siemens 2013 would point students to Coursera for
content and use his course for in depth discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGh4Xvp--iY
https://sites.google.com/site/themoocguide/home

8. How does this work in MultiMOOC?
• Five-week course patterned on Cormier’s 5
steps for success in MOOCs http://youtu.be/r8avYQ5ZqM0
• Week
1. Orient
2. Declare
3. Network
4. Cluster
5. Focus
Vance Stevens: MultiMOOC EVO Session
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9. Week 3: Networking
Past two years we have worked as follows:
• Week 1, Orient (the usual)
• Week 2, Declare
(introductions out of the way)
• Week 3, Network, now let’s join a MOOC
– 2013
Alec Couros’s MOOC http://etmooc.org/
– 2014
Rhizo14 The Community is Curriculum
https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomatic-
learning-the-community-is-the-curriculum/
Crafting the ePerfect Textbook
http://ebookevo.pbworks.com/w/page/70262228/
Welcome
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10. How is this working out?
• What doesn’t appear to work
– Nature of chaos is lack of structure
(cat herding)
• Not well understood by co-moderators
• Not well understood by participants
• Not well managed by lead moderator
• What appears to work
– Jim Buckingham managed to implement
BADGES (using Credly)
– In 2014, participants disappeared into
Rhizo14
• Therefore the approach works ??
• Fulfillment of a dream 
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11. MultiMOOC as fulfillment of a dream
EVO has long needed an
“umbrella” “course”
• Where participants in other sessions can
aggregate knowledge in a central space
• cMOOCs show us ways of aggregating that
knowledge
– GrssHopper and “Daily” aggregation of content
http://grsshopper.downes.ca/
– I have a question @eduquestion #eduquestion
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12. Whither MultiMOOC?
Options for next year
• Stop it already! Learn from someone else for a
change  or join some other team
• Formally funnel weeks 3-5 into an existing MOOC
– Would mean planning for weeks 1-2
• Orientation in MOOCs
• How to aggregate so content returns to EVO center
– Dissipation in Week 3 with reliance thereafter on
community discussion of content aggregation
• Restructure with co-moderators engaged in
weekly planning
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13. For more information
All Vance Stevens slide presentations
are available at
http://slideshare.net/vances
Vance blogs at http://learning2gether.net
And at http://AdVancEducation.blogspot.com
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