Jawitz, Deacon, Small & Walji (2017) presentation to HELTASA conference

1. Producing MOOCs:
Evaluating institutional gains
Jeff Jawitz, Andrew Deacon, Janet Small &
Sukaina Walji

2. MOOC = Massive Open Online Course
Platform = company that provides a global
service to host, store and distribute online
courses eg. Coursera, FutureLearn

3. UCT’s MOOC Project
• Showcase UCT teaching & research
• Make UCT’s knowledge resources globally accessible
• Give global exposure to African content and knowledge
AND
Develop UCT capacity & expertise in online learning
Support learning within UCT
Support students in academic transitions
AND
Bring in money

4. Showcase teaching and
introduce topics with high-
profile ‘rockstar’
presenters
Introduce fields and
support students in
undergraduate study
Develop skills and
introduce topics for
postgraduate study.
Showcase research and
special interest topics
at postgraduate level
Showcase professional
opportunities for continuing
education and qualifications
Inwardly focused
gateway courses
Outwardly focused
showcase courses
Within the Higher
Education Landscape
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5. MOOC Global
Network
University
Organisations
supporting
MOOCs
Academic
departments
implementing
MOOCs
Individual
MOOC
Projects

6. Monitoring

7. Formal Data sources
• project documents (proposals, reports)
• promotion videos,
• correspondence, and
• interviews with MOOC team members
• Further interviews planned with key institutional stakeholders,
• UCT senior leadership,
• CILT MOOC development team,
• MOOC-makers: academics involved in the creation and use of the MOOCs.

8. Stage Structure
Advocacy Develop communication mechanisms
Design Put in place development opportunities
Production Set up production facilities
Bring on board production skills
Management Put in place governance structures
– MOOC advisory Board
– Online Education Sub committee
Policy Put in place Online Education Policy document
Implementation Address issues of Access

9. Stage Culture
(Ideas that are challenged/discussion enabled)
Advocacy how teaching happens
Design Role of technology
NB of learning design
Production Question resourcing priorities
Management Increased focus on management of teaching and
learning
Address resourcing priorities
Policy Focus on curriculum design incorporating online
resources.
Rethink online provision at UCT
Implementation Reputation / international & national profile

10. Stage Agency
Advocacy Give space to emerging advocates/innovators
Design innovation
increased focus on student learning
Production increased experimentation
Management New leaders emerge
Implementation Use of Wrapping
Increase use of OER’s
Acquiring new skills
New networks & communities of practice

11. MOOC title UCT Unit UCT academics
1.Medicine and the arts: Humanising Health Care Family Med and Anthropology 2 (with 16 guest lecturers)
2. What is a Mind Psychology 1
4. Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics Surgery 1
5. Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries Energy Research Centre 3 (3 guest lecturers)
6. Education for All: Disability, Diversity and Inclusion Disability Studies 2
7. Julia Scientific Programming Math & Applied Math 2
8. Becoming a change maker: Social Innovation Bertha Centre (GSB) 3 (3 guest lecturers)
9. Extinctions: Past and Present Biological Sciences 1 (10 guest lecturers)
10. Organ Donations: from Life to Death Surgery 2
11. Writing your world: Moving into the academic space Language Development Unit. 4
12. Climate Adaptation ACDI African Climate & Development
Initiative
1 (guest lecturers to be confirmed)
13. Marine Ecosystem Marine Research Institute 2
14. Innovative finance Bertha Centre (GSB) 2
TOTAL 26
(Plus 32 guest lecturers)

12. Case studies – impact on UCT teaching

13. Origins: Developed
out of an existing
taught masters course
Reuse: Used as a flipped
classroom for part of the
taught masters course

14. Cases used in taught
courses

15. Writing your World:
Finding yourself in the academic space
• Week 1: Starting to write
understanding definitions of identity
• Week 2: Developing an argument
shifting identities
• Week 3: Supporting the argument
situating identity within culture
• Week 4: Starting to finish
writing the first draft
Used with tutors
to support
writing process

16. Extinctions: Past and Present
Used during
disruptions to
substitute lectures

17. Education for All: Disability, Diversity and
Inclusion Materials reused for professional
development – for teachers and others (e.g..
Occupational Therapists)

18. Becoming a changemaker: Introduction to social innovation
Classes teaching
establishing a business at
the Cape Town Library
that incorporates MOOC
Sessions in lab with
facilitators to support
access, skills and discussion
to complete MOOC

20. Major questions at the moment
•Whether to invest in building in house capacity
or to extend further partnerships especially wrt
platform hosting?
•How to fund further development?