MOOCs as catalyst for digital learning experience. NordBioMedNet meeting in Copenhagen

1. cormac.mcgrath@ki.se
Cormac McGrath & Lars-Arne Haldosen
Karolinska Instituet
Using experiences of MOOCs to promote digital learning
& virtual mobility.

2. Why KI offers MOOCs?
 Profiling / ”marketing”
 Find collaborators
 Developing digital/content
material
 Ethical – educating society
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3. KI’s different kinds of edX based digital
learning interaction
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MOOC
Massive Open
Online Course
National (NOOC)
Small Private (SPOC)

4. How to design and produce a MOOC/SPOC
 Video-snippets
 Texts
 Interactive excercises
 Discussion forums
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5. An example of a MOOC: R Statistics
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Course
Statistics R
41 000
participants
197
countries
2726
certificate

6. cormac.mcgrath@ki.se
KI-edx

7. From Massive Open to Small Private Open
 Identifying areas of interest
 Developing core material for dissemination
 Enhancing collaboration in the Nordic region and beyond
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8. UNESCO
 Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of
educational materials that are in the public domain or
introduced with an open license. The nature of these
open materials means that anyone can legally and freely
copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from
textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes,
assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.
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9. Part two: Open Learning Activities
 Open learning activities
- Based on competency frameworks (Intended Learning
Outcomes) & technical standards (Open access software)
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10. Open Learning Activities: an example of
common goals
 Bioethics:
 Identify ethical problems, positions, and arguments within
biomedicine.
 Perform an analysis of an ethical problem within
biomedicine.
 Coherently argue for and against courses of action on how
to deal with an ethical problem within biomedicine
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11. Open Learning Activities- promoting virtual
mobility
 Competency frameworks that work across borders
 Pedagogical content material that is developed with
“excellence in mind”
 Assessment activities that allow students to test their own
knowledge and allow faculty to track that knowledge
 Examination conducted in respective school
 Data that allows us to follow students learning and figure
out what works!
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12. Possibilities are obvious and endless but
what of the challenges
 Time consuming
(opportunity: re-use material)
 Rethink education – video snippets
 Interaction and feedback
 Diverse audience - language
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