Pecha kucha presented at ALT-C 2012 in Manchester, UK

1. Not just moocin’ about
George Roberts, Jenny Mackness,
Marion Waite, Elizabeth Lovegrove

2. Background

3. Open Academic Practice
• Explicit pedagogical • Aggregate
perspective – Filter, select and gather information
meaningful to the individual,
– Social constructivist, dialogic,
actor networks • Remix
Approach
• Distributed, OS platform – Interpret this information bringing
one’s own perspective and insights,
– WordPress, Moodle, Wikis
• Intentional social media • Repurpose
– Refashion it to suit individual
conversations purposes, and then
• Feed forward
The other kind of MOOC
– Share it with others, to learn from
embraces a simple business
each other
ideology, and as such is almost
the antithesis to [this] kind.
Peter Sloep http://bit.ly/LBwImp

4. – “The course aims to develop and
extend your knowledge, understanding
and skills of teaching and learning in
higher education.”
– “A key principle of the course is learner
autonomy”
– “… encourage participant interaction
and open sharing of resources,
learning, thoughts and ideas.”

5. Platform

6. Over 200 signed up
• 60 participated throughout the 6
weeks
• We reached our constituency
• 14 undertook the assessment and
Evaluation
received a certificate
• Participants were from 24 different
countries including Australia,
Canada, India, South Africa, as well
as many European countries &US
Research continuing
• How people learned
• Differential participation
• Design principles

7. In retrospect it all
As I am new to the MOOC worked well but I
learning, I was at first a bit lost as remember feeling at
it was such a multi-channel the time a bit lost.
learning, incorporating listening,
reading, discussion, thinking all This MOOC surpassed my
most at the same time expectations in terms of
content and engagement.
The micro It was a challenging as much as The "live virtual classrooms"
teach was enriching experience. Challenging really made the difference.
not clear because it was the first time for
and the me to engage with a MOOC…;
organisation enriching because I learnt a lot It was illuminating and
was a little from the experience on a number empowering at the
late of different levels same time to learn in
such a clear way the
Having taken a value of CPD, reflection
number of MOOCs assessed and what
this one encouraged students professionalism means.
my participation at a were the real
more thoughtful I don't like the
students and
level than previous use of different
we other on
sessions. sites - it is very
the border
confusing.

8. Limits of navigation
Questions
• Openness
• Epistemology
• Distributed collaboration
• Academic multimedia
• Assessment

9. Open academic practice is an
element of best academic practice. If
Implications
we want lecturers and institutions to
be among the world’s leaders, we
must adopt open academic practices
on an open academic platform.
Discuss.