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- 1. MOOCS…. PRESENTED BY MS ZM MTHETHWA
- 2. WHAT IS A MOOC? MASSIVE USES THE INTERNET TO CONNECT WITH OTHERS ON A GLOBAL SCALE OPEN NO CHARGE FOR STUDENTS ONLINE LEARNING TOGETHER IN DIGITAL MODES COURSE A MOOC COVERS A SINGLE TOPIC
- 3. THE BRIEF HISTORY OF MOOCS • 2004: GEORGE SIEMENS & STEPHEN DOWNES DEVELOP THEORY OF CONNECTIVISM, “THE THESIS THAT KNOWLEDGE IS DISTRIBUTED ACROSS A NETWORK OF CONNECTIONS, AND THEREFORE THAT LEARNING CONSISTS OF THE ABILITY TO CONSTRUCT AND TRAVERSE THOSE NETWORKS (DOWNES, 2012, P.9). • 2008: FIRST MOOC PRESENTED AT UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA WITH ~ 2200 LEARNERS • 2010: DAVE CORMIER VIDEOS ABOUT MOOCS ADDED TO YOUTUBE (CORMIER, 2010) • 2011: MOOC FOR COLLEGE PREP SKILLS HELPS FRESHMEN PREPARE FOR COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS (CORMIER, 2011) • 2012: • HARVARD’S FIRST MOOC HAS 370,000 REGISTERED STUDENTS (PAPPANO, 2012) • 2012: COURSERA LAUNCHES FROM STANFORD; OFFERS FIRST XMOOCS (CHEN, 2012) • NEW YORK TIMES CALLS 2012 “THE YEAR OF THE MOOC” PAPPANO, 2012) • 2013: CMOOCS AND XMOOCS TOO NUMEROUS TO COUNT ACCURATELY
- 4. MOOC TYPES: CMOOC & XMOOC
- 5. BRIEF HISTORY OF MOOCS OPEN EDUCATION MOVEMENT OPEN CONTENT, OPEN KNOWLEDGE, OPEN CONTENT • CONNECTIVISM • LEARNING IS SUCCESSFUL IF WE CONNECT AND BUILD RELEVANT NETWORKS • CCK08 • CONNECTIVISM AND CONNECTIVE KNOWLEDGE COURSE RUN IN 2008 • STANDFORD MOOCS (2012) • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MACHINE LEARNING, DATABASES • PLATFORMS • COURSERA • UDACITY
- 6. PLATFORMS GOOGLE COURSE BUILDER OER University Class2Go
- 7. REFERENCE LIST Cormier, D. (Director). (2010). What is a MOOC? [Video] [Motion Picture]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc Cormier, D. (2011, November). Rhizomatic learning - Why we teach? Retrieved from Dave's educational blog: http://davecormier.com/edblog/2011/11/05/rhizomatic- learning-why-learn/ Downes, S. (2012). Connectivism and connective knowledge: Essays on meaning and learning networks. Moncton, NB: National Research Council Canada. Downes, S. (2013, March 18). Evaluating a MOOC. Retrieved from Half an Hour: http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2013/03/evaluating-mooc.html Downes, S. (n.d.). The MOOC Guide . Retrieved from The MOOC Guide [Wiki]: https://sites.google.com/site/themoocguide/
Editor's Notes
- MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course. It’s massive because it can have an unlimited number of learners working together. It’s open because anyone can participate. Traditional MOOCs are offered free of charge, unless they are taken for university credit. The work all takes place online, through a combination of social networking, wiki creation, real-time meeting in venues like Skype, and through audio and video podcasts. It’s a single-topic course, lasting from a few weeks to an entire semester.
- MOOCs have a brief history, but the concept has become so popular that its use has spread throughout the world, both within academic circles and among independent learner groups. The MOOC model is based on the Connectivist learning theory, which demonstrates how learning occurs through connections with others. MOOCs throughout the Internet world have grown from the first in 2008 to a place five years later where there are MOOCs or facsimiles of MOOCs available on nearly every topic imaginable, with participants from around the globe. Last year the New York Times pronounced 2012 as the “Year of the MOOC” in education.
- Since the beginning of MOOCs, there have been many iterations of the model, with large universities offering what is now called an xMOOC, which is more closely aligned with traditional courses in its structure. These often use the more common professorial lecture in a larger scale than can be achieved in a classroom setting. cMOOCs, on the other hand, are open to knowledge sharing from ordinary participants as well as the course facilitators. Anyone with knowledge to share is welcome to do so. As you can see by the illustration, each letter in the acronym MOOC has been defined in different ways by different MOOC designers and users. We will look at the specifics of how MOOCs would work in the high school setting in a few minutes.
- Connectivism – network itself is important, success is result of creation and cultivation of learning network CCK08 – Term coined by Dave Cormier and Bryan Alexander in a course led by George Siemens and Stephen Downes, consisted of 25 fee-paying students at University of Manitoba and 2300 non fee-paying public participants (Daniel, 2012). Content available through RSS feeds, threaded discussions, blogs, online meetings. Stanford AI – 2012 – 58000 participants – facilitator Sebastian Thrun later founded Udacity.