Offering cMOOCs collaboratively: The COER13 experience from the convenors’ perspective
1. Offering cMOOCs collaboratively:
The COER13 experience from the
convenors’ perspective
Patricia Arnold, Swapna Kumar, Anne Thillosen and Martin Ebner
8. Overall of the course
• cMOOC on Open Educational Resources
• Hosted by 6 institutions
• 12 weeks (April - June 2013)
• Badges in the end of the course
9. Technical components
• Mainwebsite gRSShopper
• additionally discussion forum, Twitter Hashtag
• during runtime: Facebook group and Google+
group
• private Weblogs of hosters and participants
14. Collaborative planning
It was easier for them to design, implement
and manage the MOOC as a group, instead of
as individuals, because each convenor
brought different strengths to the MOOC
This made the MOOC more manageable to
one convenor who expressed relief, “I didn’t
have to do everything. I also didn’t have to
know everything about everything.”
15. Implementation
The biggest theme that emerged [...] about
the implementation of the MOOC was the
multiple technologies or virtual spaces
used for interactions (with participants and
among participants)
The convenors’ choice and use of the virtual
spaces depended on their own familiarity
and comfort level with the technology used
16. Lessons Learnt
• diverse group of learners who participate
• clearly define roles and responsibilities not
only in terms of design and implementation, but
also virtual space management and interaction
management
• it was as important to meet during the
implementation about how things were going
and what needed to be changed
18. notice ...
• ... it needs an intensive planning phase
• ... design your virtual communication spaces
• ... think about different responsibilities
• ... adapt virtual discussion spaces to thematic units
• ... be open for new emergent situations
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