all that needs to be known about moocs

1. MOOC PRESENTATION By
sogoni khanyiswa

2. What is a mooc?
 The term MOOC was coined by Dave Cormier or Bryan Alexander (Alexander,
2008; Cormier, 2008; Daniel, 2012; Masters & Qaboos, 2011; G. Siemens,
2012a) to describe a course on Connectivism (CCK08) organized by George
Siemens and Stephen Downers in 2008, which attracted 2,200 participants
(Downes, 2010).

3. What is a mooc……continues
 Massive
 Student numbers can be 100,000 +
 Open
 Study any course, anywhere at any time
 Online
 As opposed to face-to-face or blended
 Course
 Learning units in an academic subject

4. Why offer a mooc?
 MOOCs can profile an institution as a leading 21st Century educational
institution.
 MOOCs may well be a “game changer” with respect to how education is
delivered and consumed and institutions need to be in the MOOC space to
experience delivering education in this way and to remain current with
educational practices.
 MOOCs provide an opportunity for an institution to experiment with teaching
practices and to engage with new pedagogical approaches.
 Institutions have a range of subject areas that are specific to their region e.g.
HK SAR / China context and HKU can showcase these subjects through
offering MOOC courses

5. History of MOOCs
 The history of introducing technologies into teaching and learning has been one
of over promise and under delivery (Daniel, 2012; Reiser, 2001).
 Already seen the failure of two significant online ventures – Fathom from
Columbia University and ALLLearn backed by Oxford, Stanford, Yale and
Princeton (Knight, 2012).
 Technologies will only be successfully integrated into teaching and learning
when teachers change the way that they teach (Zemsky & Massy, 2004).

6. History of MOOCs
 Although we have seen different teaching models (King, 1993; McWilliam, 2008;
George Siemens, 2005), wholesale changes in teaching approaches have not
come about and, as we shall see, they are not occurring to any particular
degree with MOOCs.
 We need to move beyond the use of technologies for the purposes of
information transmission.
 There has been progress in this area but too often we still see the Learning
Management System – the enterprise tool of choice – used poorly for teaching
and learning (Beer, Jones, & Clark, 2009; Browne, Jenkins, & Walker, 2006;
Malikowski, 2011

7. Different types of MOOCs
 The first MOOC ever offered was a cMOOC.
 Based on a Connectivist Learning Theory
 Knowledge / content is generated by teachers, students and multiple others.
 Multiple technologies – 12 in this first MOOC – are used to connect people
participating in the course.
 On the fringes but cutting edge in terms of pedagogy and technologies

8. cMOOCs
 Coursera MOOCs could be characterized as a Standard MOOCs
or an sMOOC.
 Founded in the fall of 2011 by Daphne Koller (Stanford) and Andrew Ng (Stanford)
and was launched in April 2012 after significant venture capital funding was secured
(MarketWire, 2012).
 As of 4th April 2013 Coursera has 62 university partners and had registered over 3.5
million users enrolled in over 300 courses in 20 categories (Coursera, 2013a;
Protalinksi, 2013a).

9. C MOOCs
 Grounded in behaviorist learning theory with some cognitive components and some
constructivist components.
 This means transmission style teaching with drill and practice, problem sets and e.g.
discussion forums.
 Uses a limited range of technologies and could be thought of in terms of LMS as
platform.
 Very much in the mainstream with monetization a key component.

10. X MOOCs
 edX could be characterized as an xMOOC.
 the X signifying excellence, external outreach,
exploration, experimentation and expansion – holds for
edX which has grown out of a tradition of exploring
online teaching and learning.
 MIT announced MITx at the end of 2011 for a launch in
spring 2012. MITx has now morphed into edX with the
addition of Harvard and UC Berkeley

11. X MOOCs
 edX is not for profit and has been financed to the tune of
US$ 60 million through participating institutions and
through “gifts” from Harvard and MIT alumni
 As of November edX had 370,000 students (Coursera
had 1.7 million at the same point in time

12. X MOOCs
 Overall, edX conceives of their MOOCs as providing the potential for educational
research that will improve both the on campus and off campus experience.
 Underlying pedagogies / technologies may not be that different at the moment but
there seems to be an ongoing commitment to quality content creation / exploring
technologies for effective teaching.

13. FIELD OF ITEREST
 Historical studies
 As an historical studies, I would use C MOOC
 To help learners share background information of history.
 To understand the world as it is today through critical thinking.
 Eventually to allow learners to explore the field and transfer the knowledge
and skills acquired.

14. MOOC topic
 Education
 Food
 Lifestyle
 Health
 These topics contribute to history in order for learners to be fully engage and
understand the importance of History.