what are MOOCS acording to N T Mthembu

1. Massive open online courses
 Moocs presentation

2.  Content
 What is a MOOC
 How to use Massive Open Online Courses
 The history of MOOCs
 Types of MOOCs
 MOOC I am actually going to do in this
module

3. What is a mooc?
 Is the Web-based distance learning or online-based learning, and it does not
have limitation in terms of participants.
 In Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) there is creativity and the openness
and it allow the participants to share readings, videos and activities.

4. What is a mooc
continues…
 THE DISCUSSION IS OCCURING BETWEEN PEOPLE THAT ARE STAYING FAR
FROM EACH OTHER.
 ANYONE CAN JOIN MOOC SINCE IT DOESN’T HAVE THE LIMITATIONS IN
RESPECT OF WHETHER THE PERSON HAVE DEGREE OR HAVE PASSED
GRADE 12

5. •What is a MOOC CONTINUE..........

6. Why Offer a MOOC?
MOOCs can profile an
institution as a
leading 21st Century
educational
institution.
MOOC
MOOCs may well be a
“game changer” with
respect to how education
is delivered and
consumed and
institutions need to be in
the MOOC space to
experience delivering
education in this way and
to remain current with
educational practices.
MOOCs provide an
opportunity for an
institution to
experiment with
teaching practices
and to engage with
new pedagogical
approaches.
Institutions have a range
of subject areas that are
specific to their region
e.g. HK SAR / China
context and HKU can
showcase these subjects
through offering MOOC
courses.
An institution can
make knowledge
more accessible to
the general public
through offering a
range of MOOCs.

7. How to use Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
 Since MOOCs does not have curriculum, it can be a
self-directed.
 It does not limit the number of participants
 The number of teachers or instructors can also
participate because the main aim is to gain
knowledge or to attain the certain goal.
 MOOCs can also be created by students discussing
the certain content or the chapter of the subject in
order to improve their learning

8. History of MOOCs
• MOOC is within networks that learning can generate
quite interesting experiences. This leads us to the raise of
MOOCs. The first MOOC was launched in 2008. It was
called ‘Connectivism and Connective Knowledge/2008’
(CCK8), created by educators Stephen Downes and
George Siemens. Building off a for-credit course at the
University of Manitoba, Canada, this was the first class
designed behind the acronym of ‘MOOC’ and used many
different platforms to engage students with the topic,
including Facebook groups, Wiki pages, blogs, forums
and other resources.

9. Types of MOOCs

10. Types of MOOCs
• xMOOC. Is the type
of the learning where
by the learners share
the ideas and there is
only one instructor on
the discussion
• cMOOC. Hear the
learners control their
own learning, and
they create their own
goal. The learners are
not assessed or tested
weather they have met
the outcomes that they
where aiming at.

11. My mooc will be about language as I am
a zulu teacher, literiture, essay writings
and much more that language covers.

12. The type of MOOC that I mostly prefer is xMOOC
because I will get to share ideas with other people
and learn as much as I can.

13. http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/o
nline-learning/moocs/moocs
http://www.moocs.co/
http://reflectionsandcontemplations.wordpress.com/2012/08/23
/what-is-a-mooc-what-are-the-different-types-of-mooc-
xmoocs-and-cmoocs

14. http://infocult.typepad.com/infocul
t/2008/07/connectivism-course-
draws-night-or-behold-the-
mooc.html