1. Professor Irena Papadopoulos
& Asanka Dayananda
Middlesex University
Doing a MOOC! Experiences, lessons
learnt, and ‘badges’ gained
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Academic Excellence Exchange
01-12-14
4. 1.
Why?
Excited by the
Philosophy which
underpinned the
MOOC movement
Excited by the possibilities of
using the various technologies
Saw it as the vehicle of
my current work –
Culturally Competent
Compassion
7. 2.
How &
with
whom?
Had to learn fast
about MOOCs
Asanka! Great helper
Amazing response and
enthusiasm from many
colleagues I called to help
(both internal &external)
10. 3. The
Challenges
Do we have a platform?
What do we do first? Marketing!!!...well,
let’s publicise!
What do we do with
the facilitators?
Enrolling
Technology
Supporting the
novices &
technophobes
21. 5. What
will we do
different?
Be sure to have a
platform!
Have
marketing in
place at the
start
Give access
to facilitators
before the
start of the
course
Make the
course 5+1
weeks
Have more
webinars
22. Badges Gained
Personal and
Professional
Growth
Pride &
Satisfaction
Connectedness
Internal &
External
Recognition
Huge amount
of data to
help address
the project
questions
Aaah...making history...theAaah...making history...the
FIRST MDX MOOC!!!FIRST MDX MOOC!!!
A MOOC is a massive open online course. It freely available online for ‘anyone’ in the world to sign up to. This is a fairly recent development in Open Education Resources – OERs which has taken the form of not just open learning materials but “open teaching”. This is where a course taught online over a period of time is made available through the web. Although the intention is to make education available to the world, obviously to take advantage of this movement you would need money and equipment and access to the internet. MOOCs were also trigged by the rise of social networking and web 2.0 technologies. In 2007 in the United States Open Online courses were being delivered by David Wiley and Alec Couros. Around 2008, Stephen Downes coined the term ‘MOOC’ . He together with George Siemens decided to open up their teaching to ‘take advantage of some of the technologies that were around at the time’.
Open Education was a new platform which was also powered by Blackboard. It is a free, supported platform. As Middlesex University has a Blackboard contract we looked at the possibility of hosting the MOOC through open education.