1. 10 Key Questions
for Planning
a MOOC

2. 1. What is a MOOC?
Don’t know the
answer to this
question? Have you
ever participated in a
MOOC?
Thanks to
Gordon Lockhart
– a MOOC
participant – for
this image

3. 2.
Why do it?
Obvious question? Well maybe not.
‘What are the principles of MOOCs?

4. 3. Do you have the resources?
What do you
need?
What have you
got?

5. 4. Do you have the technology?
This might be
the tricky one!
No point in
starting until
this is sorted
out.

6. 5. What structure?
Lots of support or
more of a laissez-
faire approach?
What will you go
for?

7. 6. What kind of a MOOC?
They come in all shapes and sizes. Take your pick.

8. 7. What content?
This might depend on where you are coming from?
How much content will be provided? How much content will be created?

9. 8. Will there be….
Another tricky one? What about the associated assessment?
What if 1000 people or more want to be assessed?

10. 9.
Who will
plan it with
you?
Bit of a daunting task
to do on your own? Do
you have a network to
call on?

11. 10. Do you have the nerve?
A bit like jumping into the abyss, launching out into the unknown?
Will anyone turn up? Will it work? What are the risks?
This Mooc Guide by Inge de Waard might help to answer some of these questions -
http://moocguide.wikispaces.com/0.+Home+Intro+to+MOOC

12. Image Credits
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