MOOC benefits for international learners - an overview

The Advantages of MOOCs for anInternational Learning Audience By Inge de Waard

Setting the stage: remember…

Challenges of contemporary learning• Knowledge turnover high => keeping expert learners / managers knowledge pioneers in their field of expertise• Lifting subject matter experts to a higher level• Cross discipline• Trust and respect• Creating an expert community• Building a training iteration in-house• …

Why do I bring this presentation?MobiMOOC experience:

About MobiMOOC• Upcoming MobiMOOC 2012 (second roll out of the course): open, online, free course on mLearning Course wiki (http://mobimooc.wikispaces.com/) Course discussion group https://groups.google.com/group/mobimooc2012• MobiMOOC 2011, first run: April-May 2011• 3 week course covering 10 mLearning topics chosen by the future participants• If you want to join, select your favorite topic via this online poll:• http://fs10.formsite.com/formulierenITG/form216 /index.html

MobiMOOC Statistics Participants joined the Google group556 Discussion threads started1827 Tweets were sent with #mobimooc hashtag 1123 mLearning links shared on Delicious 335

Participants by Age Participants by Gender 15% 10% 61-7022% 28% 51-60 25% 41-50 43% Female 31-40 57% Male 21-30

MobiMOOC and Knowledge Transfer Learned from insights from participants in other fields of92.5% expertise Knowledge transfer: ideas tested with 77.5% virtual communities Tested with face to face colleagues 67.5% Tested with friends 50% Tested with classmates 25%

MOOCs: Appropriateness and Affinity 90% Of active participants said the MOOC format was appropriate for their learning communities 42.5% Of active participants connected with other participants to collaborate on projects after MobiMOOC

Why Mobile?77.5% Accessed MobiMOOC via mobile 61.3% Location independence 56.8% Temporal independence 55% Thought MOOCs could be followed entirely via mobile

The MobiMOOC Research Team Apostolos Rebecca Hogue Koutropoulos Ottawa, Ontario Boston, Massachusetts Canada USA Michael Sean Gallagher Seoul, Korea Inge de WaardSean C. Abajian Belgium Nilgün Özdamar KeskinNorthridge, Eskişehir-TurkeyCalifornia, USA C. Osvaldo Rodriguez Buenos Aires, Argentina

Measuring impact - the multiplicator effect with unexpected surplus’s (later reading)• MobiMOOC research team became a reality: due to a call to action to collaborate on a paper, seven MobiMOOC participants grouped together to become a research team (open science). The run up to this and the current results (two published papers, one paper in pre-published state, two presentations) will be shared.• Participants adding to the course: crowdmap, analyzing tweets, adding lists to mobile resources that were relevant to the weekly topic at hand…• People using MobiMOOC knowledge for their professional purposes (e.g. a participant used it to get a project for UK museum, mobile health research and development center in Argentina was set up, a health education MOOC is being organized by former participants of MobiMOOC 2011).• Institutions picking up the MOOC concept: US (San Francisco) start with language MOOC, Geoff Stead from mobile cell at Cambridge, UK distilled all the resources for dissemination at Cambridge and beyond, South Africa is now building an International Online Mobile Curriculum with MOOC idea, UK higher education invited the MobiMOOC organizer and UK facilitators to prepare a MOOC workshop to see how MOOC’s can benefit higher education in UK.

MOOC history MOOC history NaturalFreestyle 3 learning 2 realm 1 Cost MOOC benefit design & ROI

History2007 – the Wiley wiki 2007: Alec Couros Social Media and Open EducationAn Open Course based in a wiki An Open Course based in a wikiParticipants from around theworld contributed to the creation Participants from around theof the course world contributed to the creation of the course

Downes & Siemens, CCK08

Connectivism as core theory Principles of connectivism: • Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions. • Learning is a process of connecting information sources. • Learning may reside in non-human appliances. • Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known • Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning. • Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill. • Decision-making is itself a learning process. George Siemens (2005 – Connectivism - a learning theory for the digital age)

The time is now: MOOC examples 100.000 learners!

The time is now, the audience is herehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc

Natural learning environment MOOC history Natural Freestyle 3 learning 2 realm 1 Cost MOOC benefit design & ROI

Creating a natural human learning environment How do we learn?

Dating back to …Around the campfire – dialogues and narratives

Socrates (and the Indian school)Discussion for reflection and mutual knowledgeenhancement

Network connections are key One person is not enough, the team = network makes the genius = strengthBy following discussions, key thinkers become visible

Self-regulated learning & PLE: create your knowledgeYou know yourself, you learn, at your pace andwith your criteriaThis creates your space in the network

Tips for coping with the abundance of resources in MOOCs Collaboratively written pointers provided by the MobiMOOC participants • Use the course to your advantage! You know where you want to go, ask relevant help. • Select between the abundance of resources. • Plan which type of participant you want to be (lurker, intermediate, active) • Develop a mental filter: you do not need to reply to everyone, skim discussions and choose to reply on what is of interest to you. • Get to the point: be short (max 250 words) and respectful in your discussions/questions/answers. This will save time for everyone. • Use descriptive titles in your discussion threads: this allows people to immediately anticipate where you are going with your message. • Connect with participants working on the same topic. • Check your e-mail digest in the google group section edit my membership. • Pace yourself to keep motivated. • Dare to take time off. • The most important idea behind self-regulated learning is: Make the course Work for YOU!

Bringing it together in the CloudTheir knowledge + your knowledge = our learning network

MOOC Design MOOC history NaturalFreestyle 3 learning 2 realm 1 Cost MOOC benefit design & ROI

MOOC Design Syllabus Corediscussion Course anchor Social media Ubiquity tools

The core of the course Course outline and expectations Central discussion starting and meeting point

Select relevant tools with the right educational benefits and extra’s.

Mobile enabled social media Why use it Knowledge Age Challengetool AddressedBlogs To reflect on what is learned, or Self-regulated learning. what the learner thinks is of Lifelong Learning.(Examples: wordpress, blogger, importance. Becoming active, critical contentposterous) Keeping a learning archive. producer. Reflecting on the learning itself. . Commenting on content.Discussion enabler: Listserv This type of online tool uses e- Enabling dialogue. mail to keep everyone informed. Collaboration.(Examples: google groups, With many of the listserve’s you Self-regulated learning.yahoo groups) can choose how you want your Informal learning. mails to be delivered (e-mail digest: e.g. immediate, once a day, once a week), which adds to self-regulated learning. Generating and maintaining discussions. Getting a group feeling going via dialogue.Social Networking Building a network of people that Enables networking. can add to the knowledge Collaboration.(examples: Facebook, Google+, creation of the learner. Enabling dialogue.LinkedIn) Informal learning. Becoming active, critical content producer. Link to Google document with more social media tools

Ensure Ubiquity

The coordinator & facilitators keep everyone extra motivated• Everyone knows her/his role and the challenges of a MOOC (chaos, overload)• Facilitators are guides on the side• Round up mails are provided• Keeping people motivated by connecting and keeping informed and course oriented• Provide guidance for self-regulated learning.

Cost benefit: Return on Investment MOOC history Natural Freestyle 3 learning 2 realm 1 Cost MOOC benefit design & ROI

Cost benefit / Return on investment? In a knowledge age, securing knowledge growth is your investment for success.

The free and open cloud• Setting up => no cost (if in the open, can be limited to ‘members’ of learning spaces)

Training  working hoursWe are in a financial crisis, but not a mental one.The cost of the training hours that would otherwise beworking hoursProvide time for reflection and implementation

Return on investment • Authentic learning: build activities that immediately relate to learner environment, this way the result can be embedded and cost is in some way reduced thanks to a usable result

Keeping the competitive edge • Work force or employees and learners on top of their field => competitive edge

Digital literacy is essential Raising digital literacy with emerging tools increases the learners capacity to function in todays connected worldMost people use it, but … how?! We can improve their use.

Wrapping up MOOC historyMobiM Natural OOC 3 learningreal ex 2 realm 1 Cost MOOC benefit design & ROI

Call for action Join a MOOC (e.g. the next MobiMOOC 10 – 30 September 2012, become a member of the MobiMOOC google group here) or morechallenging: let us know where to find your MOOC!

Let’s make this work for all of us!Questions and reflections.Simple, cloud, elements, support social learnerdynamics.

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