Learning 2.0 Presentation - Ho/Why to create a k-12 MOOC http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/creating-a-minimooc-for-k-12

1. Blackboard Collaborate Overview:

2. Poll Question #1
Have you ever
participated in an online
course?
Please click on the yes or no button
under the moderator window.

3. Poll Question #2
Have you ever participated in a
MOOC (Massive Open Online
Course)?

4. Poll Question #3
What is your role in education?
A. K-8 teacher
B. Secondary or post-secondary
teacher
C. Administrator
D. Distance learning instructor
E. Other - type in the chat

5. Session Question:
What is a MOOC, how is it created and how is it
relevant to K12 education?
Retrieved from:
http://gbl55.wordpress.com/2011/03/08

6. Rather than thinking of public education
as a burden that schools must shoulder
on their own, what would it mean to
think of public education as a
responsibility of a more distributed
network of people and institutions...

7. ....what would it mean to enlist help in this endeavour
from an engaged and diverse set of publics that are
broader than what we traditionally think of as
educational and civic institutions? In addition to publics
that are dominated by adult interests, these publics
should include those that are relevant and accessible
to kids now, where they can find role models,
recognition, friends, and collaborators who are co
participants in the journey of growing up in a digital
age.
Mimi Ito, 2010

8. Why and How to make a K-12
MOOC
Massive Open Online Course

9. What Ignited the idea...
Professionally:
• I am the CEO- Chief Education Officer for
www.GlobalEd.ca
• Completed pilot "Online ESL Blended Program"
using moodle
• Looking for the most cutting edge Blended Learning
options for 2013

10. What ignited the idea even more...
Personally:
Retrieved from:
http://edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04

11. From:
http://victoriadee.blogspot.ca/2

12. Has your inner voice ever told you to do
something? You knew it wasn't "wrong"
but you knew you might be alone with
your idea? You knew that you be facing a
challenge and the Road Less Travelled....
Question #1
Did you listen to your inner voice or did you ignore
it?

13. My inner voice kept saying...
I need to find a way bridge technology and learning
outside the classroom walls.
MOOC's seem like"cutting edge" online learning
The website said register here:
So.....I joined a MOOC.

14. #change11 MOOC - Massive Open Online Course
Alec Couros led week 29 - Understanding Digital Citizenship

15. My Perceptions of a MOOC...
As I listened and participated in Alec's
session - I wondered how come I had
never experienced this kind of "online"
learning before? How could I apply it to k-
12 audience? Is there a k-12 MOOC?
What does it look like? Would others want
to help me create a MOOC for k-12?

16. Major Differences in MOOC and regular Online Courses
• Everyone was there to learn together (no hierarchy)
• Weekly Synchronous Meeting Times
• Teachers gave contact information
• Teachers encouraged you to connect with them
• "Nodes" (Digital Learning areas) to interact and connect
with others
• Flipped Learning
• Content given in Digital Format
• Choice of Activities
• Activities presented in open forum for feedback
• No formal assessment
• All activities presented using social media

17. What I felt was missing in a MOOC based on MY
expectations
• As the course progressed, I learned that not every lead facilitator
was like Alec Couros - he is unique
• I started the course late and full of enthusiasm...and felt alone
• I was expected to figure out how to connect, network, create a
blog, link my RSS feed and use twitter before I could complete
activities.....all by myself!
• I felt excluded from the "community" and did not know how to
connect with like minded people....for support

18. What I did not get out of the course and I
wanted....
• I wanted to create a course like #change11,
that could teach others how to use social
media and discover their digital footprints -
giving everyone time, scaffolded support and
that created an encouraging digital learning
environment for all.
• I wanted to take the Higher Education
MOOC and put a K-12 stamp on it.

19. Question #4
When you create a new project
for a course, do you learn as
much (or more) than your
students?

20. Why #DigiFoot12? - Everyone learns
As a parent, I wanted to look for topics that I
would want my child's teacher to cover in
some way during the school year. I chose
general topics hoping that my children's
teachers would hear about the course and be
able to start somewhere.

21. Why #DigiFoot12
I want to be a learner too!
As an educator... I knew that I
wanted open content resources so that
anyone anywhere would have access-
anytime. I wanted something to be
collaborative where people could find and link
to "what they have learned"

22. Topics "everyone" could learn from...
The topics were:
Week 1 - What is/Building a PLN
Week 2 - Twitter (Social Networking)
Week 3 - Digital Citizenship
Week 4 - Researching Online
Week 5 - Students as Educators
Week 6 - Cyberbullying
Week 7 - Badge Presentation

23. Focus:
http://thecleversheep.blogspot.ca/2012/06/seven-de

24. 7 Degrees of Connectedness
1. Lurker
2. Novice
3. Insider
4. Colleague
5. Collaborator
6. Friend
7. Confidant

25. #DigiFoot12 MOOC
It's not in what the course looks like...it's what you DO with it!
Web Tour of #DigiFoot12
http://digifoot12.wikispaces.com/

26. Wikispaces

27. Student 2.0

28. MightyBell

29. Edmodo

30. Traditional Online Learning has made
attempts.....
to Connect and Network

32. Why MOOCs offer a different way to learn...
http://venspired.com/?p=2804

33. Retrieved from: http://tarateach.blogspot.ca/2011/01/blooms-taxonomy.html

34. http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-a

35. http://engineerofknowledge.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-
holy-oak-tree-religion/

36. http://kmbeing.com/2012/03/21/the-new-tree-of-knowledge/

38. Why MOOC-like courses...
...have a future in K-12

39. Renaissance
Man
http://thingsithinkithunk.com/2010/06/09/renaissance-man/

40. Retrieved with permission from:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/

41. http://forwardslashdublin.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/renaissance-man-brainstorm-ep/

42. http://www.agilebusinesslogic.com/blog/?p=1719

43. Learning is a network...
Part of a system...
...“an interconnected set of elements that is
coherently organized in a way that achieves
something.”
... “more than a sum of its parts. It may exhibit
adaptive, dynamic, goal-seeking, self-
preserving, and evolutionary behavior.”
Meadows - Based on Business Innovation

44. Verena's Learning....#1
• I wanted to work on making all #digifoot
participants feel "included"
When I spoke to Alec Couros he reminded me
to always make a daily email that includes
examples of student work - we all like to be
the examples

45. Verena's Learning #2
• How to connect all participants new to "open learning"?
Participants were beginners to advanced - I needed to
scaffold options for new learners while challenging my
advanced learners. MOOCs naturally offer personalized
learning options
Participant mentors were asked to volunteer to MODEL, to
write comments anytime they saw something
unanswered, to help me moderate Blackboard
sessions, Twitter, Netvibes, Google.docs and various
other tools. I encouraged others to lead in order to help
make the course sustainable for me.

46. Verena's Learning #3
Student questions and teacher feedback
seemed "amplified" in an open online forum
I learned to accept that failure was possible,
learn from my mistakes and do my best.
Being authentic got me through

47. How MOOC's "could be used in k-12
An online Module or Course (Students,
Teachers, Admin, Districts, Gov't)
• Using an open or closed wiki, you could
use the MOOC model to create an online
course or module of your own based on
this PPT presentation

48. As a professional development option
• MOOC's can be offered on any topic and can be a "course" or way
to connect and learn.
• Pick one topic - then pick various subtopics for your "experts" to
focus on.
• You don't have to ask others to be "experts" you could be the lead
facilitator the whole way through....However, asking others to "lead"
a week based on their "strength" is a great way to connect and
network.
• You can choose to keep the course within a school, district or
consider opening your "course" to others.

49. How to design a MOOC
1. Who is your audience or
what are your creating the
MOOC for?

50. 2. Create a wikispaces homepage
• Set up a pages about:
o Course Information (Course objectives,how
to register, how it is run...)
o FAQ or Help and Support
o Privacy Issues
o Resources
o How to "Track" RSS Feeds, Blogs and
Twitter Tweets

51. 3. Weekly synchronous Guest Facilitators
• Start looking for "experts" in
the topics you would like to
cover
• Have a template for them to
follow

52. 4. Schedule
• Start setting up a schedule ensuring
F2F recorded sessions
• Ask facilitators to create weekly
activities

53. 5. Design Opening Week
• Be the facilitator for the first
session in order to create a
template and to start the first
page

54. 6. Start Connecting/Planning the Social Media
• Set up a Google RSS Feed page,
Netvibes page and Twitter
tracking page with hashtag

55. #DigiFoot12 Tracking
Netvibes - Mentor David Truss

56. #DigiFoot12 Tracking
Twitter
Hashtracking - Beta

57. 7. Start Building Networks
• Start Google Docs for the
collection of Twitter names
and blog links
• Sit back and wait for the class
the start.

58. Assessment
Created by: Jeremy Macdonald @MrMacnology
I chose a "Badge" System of Assessment

59. Will Richardson - Assessment Graph
http://willrichardson.com/post/28626

60. What will you end with?
Collection of Resources
• You will have a collection of resources based on a collaborative effort
• You will have developed leadership skills among your peers and ensured that everyone is
identified by their strengths
• You will have created the foundations for autonomous learning for all participants which will offer
them the opportunities outside of the school and/or district
You will have taken away the idea that Professional
Development is GIVEN, and instead proven that
Professional Development is CREATED

61. Steve Hargadon
www.MOOC.me

62. Resources:
Please check out the Resources Page at #DigiFoot12
http://digifoot12.wikispaces.com/Resources
What if you want to examine and study different free online
course?
LiveBinder FULL of On Demand Professional Development
by Peggy George
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=429095

63. Contact Information:
Verena Roberts
@verenanz
e-mail: GlobalEdvr@gmail.com