Abstract at http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/2186507-plenary-session-4 The first MOOC was conceived in 2008 as a model of connectivist learning theory. Its proponents Georgare Siemens, Stephen Downes, and Dave Cormier almost inadvertently seeded a revolution in re-thinking how we conceive learning in a highly networked digital age. Since then, MOOCs have tended to fall between two extremes which have come to be known as cMOOCs and xMOOCs. These are differentiated in part in the way they approach their subject matter; i.e. the degree to which they expose participants to the chaos they are likely to encounter in the real world, and the degree to which they engage learners in resolving that chaos. This talk examines what MOOCs can teach us about the role of chaos in our own learning, and suggests how we can apply MOOC models to our contexts of facilitating our students’ learning, and in learning from one another in our ongoing professional development (blogged: http://advanceducation.blogspot.in/2014/10/what-we-learn-from-moocs-about.html)

1. Chaos and Learning: What
we learn from MOOCs about
Professional Development
Sharing Digital Stories, and Flipping Classrooms
Vance Stevens Plenary at GLoCALL
Ahmedabad, India, Oct 11, 2014

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8. Parsing the Abstract
You will find the following abstract for my talk at
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/2186507-plenary-session-4
Chaos and Learning: What we learn from MOOCs about Professional
Development and Flipping Classrooms (and sharing digital stories)
• First MOOC conceived in 2008 as a model of connectivist learning theory
• Proponents George Siemens, Stephen Downes, and Dave Cormier seeded
revolution in re-thinking how learning occurs in highly networked digital age
• Since then, MOOCs tend to fall between extremes
• cMOOCs
• and xMOOCs.
• Differentiated in part in the way they approach their subject matter;
i.e. the degree to which they
• expose participants to the chaos they are likely to encounter in the real world,
• engage learners in resolving that chaos
• This talk examines what MOOCs can teach us about the role of chaos in our own
learning, and suggests how we can apply MOOC models to our contexts of
facilitating our students’ learning, and in learning from one another in our
ongoing professional development.
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9. Connectivism: A learning theory for
the digital age (Siemens, 2004)
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http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

10. Structured learning? Irrelevant?
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In this YouTube video, Siemens says at min 1:13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqL_lsogeNU&feature=youtu.be

11. Irrelevant!!? Who said that?
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http://www.amazon.com/Why-School-Education-Information-Everywhere-ebook/dp/B00998J5YQ

12. Siemens on Chaos
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Howard Reingold interviews George Siemens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMfipxhT_Co&feature=related

13. Siemens on Chaos
"I’m not aware of any research actually that says linear structure
produces better outcomes than more chaotic meandering
structure. Our intent … is to argue that
• the experience of learning, making sense of that chaos, is actually
the heart of the learning experience,
• but if an instructor makes sense of that chaos for you and gives
you all the readings and sets the full path in place for you then
• you are eviscerating the learner’s
experience
• because now you’ve made sense of them and all you’ve told them is
walk the path that I’ve formed.
• When it comes to complexity I’m a great fan of letting learner’s
hack their way through that path and getting the value of that
learning experience and that sense-making process.”
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14. Stephen DownesWiAOC 2007
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http://downes.ca
http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/personal-learning-the-web-20-way

15. What else do you want to know?
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• Almost 500 posts about MOOCs:
http://www.downes.ca/mooc_posts.htm
• Downes, S. (2012). Connectivism and Connective Knowledge: Essays on meaning
and learning networks. Stephen's Web: My eBooks. Available
http://www.downes.ca/files/Connective_Knowledge-19May2012.pdf.

16. Downes on Chaos
From this YouTube
Noves maneres daprendre i treballar
en la societat xarxa
http://youtu.be/wyaeTvGQDsA
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“What we see
is chaos”

17. Dave Snowden: Cynefin
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http://youtu.be/N7oz366X0-8

18. Dave Cormier on Complex / Chaotic
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http://learning2gether.net/2013/01/20/dave-cormier-discusses-cmooc-and-multimooc-co/

19. Sus Nyrop on Chaos Navigation
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/wiaoc2007help.htm
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20. Vance Stevens on Complex / Chaotic
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There is no such thing as an English teacher
http://tesl-ej.org/ej28/int.html (Cairo, 2004)

21. For more detailed information
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Take a side-tour: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/chaos-in-learning

22. Incidentally, what’s a MOOC?
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Basic MOOC history
• Wiki view
• Wikipedia
• Starting with pre-history of MOOCs
• This page, click here
http://nova.campusguides.com/c.php?g=112312&p=725994

23. Massive / Open / Online / Course
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• Open / online: Takes advantage of abundance vs. scarcity
• Massive: Scales
Stephen Downes 2012; posted in Alan Levine:
http://cogdogblog.com/2012/09/21/just-ds106/

24. Coping with cMOOCs (Cormier)
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http://youtu.be/r8avYQ5ZqM0

25. One way cMOOCs scale: RSS
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• Enroll your blog on a MOOC
• Tag relevant posts with the MOOC tag
• The script aggregates ALL just tagged posts
from ALL participants
• Displays them in newsletter format
• Participants can then interact with each other
by commenting on each other’s posts
http://grsshopper.downes.ca/about.htm

26. Understanding of cMOOCs is ineffable
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https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomatic-learning-
the-community-is-the-curriculum/
http://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/rhizo14-opml-feedlist/

27. Martin Hawksey’s TAGSxplorer
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http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/ connective cloud of all Twitter posts RHIZO14
http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=tDHgQeSbHR3fcvN81EHnxQQ&sheet=oaw

28. Figuring out TAGSxplorer via MOOC
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I want a connective cloud of my own tag … How? (who you gonna call?)
http://evomlit.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/revisiting-the-question-of-tagging/

29. I just happened to see this …
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30. Learnification?? Huh? <click>
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31. WritingMatrix: The blog project
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The
digital
story
http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com http://youtu.be/NHjlCY0BCNo

32. There are also xMOOCs
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http://degreeoffreedom.org/xmooc-vs-cmooc/

33. Thrun and Norvig’s xMOOC on AI
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http://moocnewsandreviews.com/ultimate-guide-to-xmoocs-and-cmoocso/

34. xMOOCs (Thrunwent from Stanford to found Udacity)
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2014
https://www.edx.org/course-list
https://www.udacity.com/courses#!/All

35. Siemens on cMOOC vs xMOOC
Siemens coined the term xMOOC in a 2012 post
("xMOOC?" http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2012/07/25/moocs-are-really-a-platform/)
• "Our MOOC model emphasizes creation, creativity, autonomy,
and social networked learning.
• The Coursera model emphasizes a more traditional learning
approach through video presentations and short quizzes and
testing.
Put another way,
• cMOOCs focus on knowledge creation and generation
• whereas xMOOCs focus on knowledge duplication."
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36. Flipped learning in MOOCs
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http://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_aiclass/all/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom

37. Connected Courses (happening NOW)
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http://connectedcourses.net/
Embodies some of best elements of MOOCs and online learning
• Jim Groom - Edupunk, domain-of-one’s own, http://ds106.us/
• Alan Levine - http://50ways.wikispaces.com to tell a digital story
• Howard Rheingold – Smart mobs, Net Smart, Mind amplifiers

38. “You’re not on the edge if you’re not falling off”
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http://rheingold.com/

39. Alan Levine
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http://50ways.wikispaces.com/
Jim Groom
http://cogdogblog.com/
http://umw.domains/

40. http://ds106.us
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41. Why digital stories?
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42. GLoCALL
HoA
work-shop
Oct 9,
2014
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http://learning2gether.net/2014/10
/09/learning2gether-with-glocall-
2014-ahmedabad-india/

43. Join us Sundays on L2G
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http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded
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44. Thank you
Join us online -
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http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2014/10/what-we-learn-from-moocs-about.html