3. WHAT ARE MOOCs
“A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at
large-scale interactive participation and open access via the web. In
addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and
problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a
community for the students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs).
MOOCs are a recent development in distance education.”
4. A brief history of MOOCs
2004 - George Siemons and Stephen Downe’s developed
the theory of connectivism, which is defined as learning
with the role of social and cultural context.
2008 - The first MOOC was presented at the University of
Manitoba with approximately 2200 learners.
2010 – video’s about MOOCs added to YouTube by
Dave Cormier.
5. Continue. . .
2011 – MOOCs for the college prep skills helps freshmen
prepare for college requirements (Cormier,2011).
2012 – Harvard’s first MOOC has approximately 370 000
registered learners (Pappano,2012).
Coursera launches from Stanford: Offers first XMOOCs
(Chen,2012).
The New York Times call 2012 “The year of the
MOOCs.”(Pappano,2012).
6. Continue. . .
2013 – CMOOCs and XMOOCs too numerous to accurately count.
8. Example of its evolution
Open
education
movement
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9. TYPES OF MOOCs
XMOOCs
This MOOC focuses mostly on Instructivist approaches to teaching as
the instructor along with the support team, record and provide video
lecturer for learning.
Knowledge that learners have acquired are then practiced through
formative testing/ assessment as they are assessed in some sort of
graded activity.
CMOOC
This MOOC tends to focus more on constructivist and connectivist
approaches to learning.
Learning truly happens when learners interact with authentic materials.
This approach is learner centred.
11. Topics to in pursue navigating Your
Professional Future:
- Identify key discipline-specific and generic skills, attitudes and
abilities needed in academic and professional life.
- Map out a professional career plan for the next five years.
- Begin development of a professional ePortfolio.