Creating a MOOC

1. Learning Developer to….world domination.
How collaborative working accidently created a SOOC
Kate Coulson Littlemore
Head of the Centre for Achievement and Performance
The University of Northampton

2. Session Plan
The Background:
Why? How? When? What?
The Experience:
Collaboration;
Multidisciplinary team
The Future:
MOOC; SPOC; Research Project

3. The Background
• Study Skills for Academic
Success
• CAIeRO Process
(Creating Aligned
Interactive educational
Resource Opportunities)
• Learning Technologists;
Institute of Learning and
Teaching; CfAP Team;
CfAP Ambassadors;
Students.
• Example content

4. The Experience
Challenges:
– Diaries
– Time
– Funding
– “Day Jobs”
– Peer reviewers
– PR process
– Editing
– E-tivities

5. The Future
• SPOC – working with
other academic staff
• MOOC – working with the
original team plus
Marketing and
Admissions Tutors
• Level 7 MOOC and
SPOC….coming June
2014! (Level 5? Level 6?)
• Research funded by the
University’s Institute of
Learning and Teaching

6. Summary
Any questions?
kate.littlemore@northampton.ac.uk
Twitter - @katelittlemore

7. Thank you
for listening