Open Online Courses

Online Open Courses: A model for connected learning
George Siemens
September 6, 2011
Pretoria, South Africa

What is open online learning?

1. Open
No fee
No barriers to entry
No restrictions on participation
No requirement of core readings from books or closed journals

2. Online
All content fully accessible online
All conversations (synch/asynch) fully accessible online

How to deliver an open online course.2-step model
Do what you do in a regular online course.
Open it up.

For-credit learners
CCK08/09/11

Activities of the educator
1. Amplifying2. Curating3. Wayfinding and socially-driven sensemaking4. Aggregating5. Filtering6. Modeling7. Persistent presence
http://www.connectivism.ca/?p=220

2007/08/09/10/11

2008, 2009, 2011

http://www.cdlprojects.com/

Starts September 12, 2011

Course interaction is distributed

Course content is distributed

To make sense, participants weave a coherent structure

Getting Credit for open online courses

Grading and evaluation
I’m quite fine with grading in open online courses.
Evaluation is still an important currency in education.

Evolution of open courses
First offerings:
Moodle
Elluminate
Blogs
Wikis
SecondLife
GoogleGroups
Ustream
Pageflakes
Delicious
Podcasts

Recent offerings:
Same as earlier offerings:
No learning management system
gRSShopper as hub (more on that later)
Twitter
Facebook
Personal aggregation tools
Networking comments (again, grsshopper)
This stuff is additive (except for the LMS :))

Interaction Cycle

Blog-based aggregation
http://www.edufeedr.org/

Learners own and use their personal spaces and existing identities

Curriculum is a starting point

Re-centering with new artifacts

Benefit for learners
Build networks
Global interaction
Knowledge growth
Creation and co-creation
Develop identity
Develop digital literacy
Develop sensemaking and wayfinding skills

How to assist learners
Sub-networks and clustering
Mentors (Couros)
Video and tutorial support
Give learners permission to explore
Don’t.have.to.read.it.all
Share as you start to make sense of format
Share as you start to make sense of content
Build and expand knowledge domain
Novel, random connections
Trust peer-support processes

change.mooc.ca(Starts September 12, 2011)
Twitter: gsiemens
www.elearnspace.org/blog
Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2012:
Vancouver
http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca/

http://www.elearnspace.org	2325
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http://www.cirip.ro	33
http://dawsonite.dawsoncollege.qc.ca	18
http://translate.googleusercontent.com	8
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com	2
https://www.maang.nsw.edu.au	1
http://www.virtualismediagroup.com	1
http://gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com	1
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http://lingro.com	1
http://translate.google.com	1

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