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#23keysmooc
Module 2: Let’s plan a MOOC!
Sílvia Simon
C4D, UdG, silvia.simon@udg.edu, @silviasimonr
Miquel DURAN
C4D, UdG, miquel.duran@udg.edu, @miquelduran
@silviasimonr@miquelduran @c4dudg #23keysmooc

Nonspontaneous generation
• Why would you wish to build up a MOOC?
• Possible yet not only answer: “I do not know,
but I guess it will yield interesting results”
• But is a MOOC an isolated thing? No! And it is
not born overnight
• Our experience with 5 different MOOCs (the
GISOLR initiative – Science Open Learning and
Research)

Involvement and motivation
• There are many ways to be involved and to be
motivated by a MOOC
• One has to find just the proper reason to be
happy with it
• It is not just to “modify slightly” a moodle or
other online course. Beware!

Collaboration, teamwork
• A MOOC can be planned alone, but surely it is
faster, easier (and more fun!) if done in
collaboration within a team
• Leadership vs. parallel teaming
• On sustainability
• Help from the university staff and technicians,
especially with video production (this is very
dependent of course)

A MOOC is a project
• Yes, a MOOC is a project like any other
• And it may require strategic planning, with
objectives, tasks, scheduling, assessing and
improving / a cycle
• Use planning tools!! From brainstorming apps
to just post-it notes

What we will need
• Time (we mean... available, quality time)
• A litte more time that we though initially
• Even more time
• Well... but within reasonable limits

We need time for...
• Brainstorming, planning
• Writing text
• Building presentations
• Producing and shooting Videos
• Maitaining interest by students, correcting errors,
improving on-the-spot
• But... like any project.
• Why don’t you think of this to be an actual
research project?

Our Idea
• Is our idea singular?
• What does the MOOC bring to our
(professional) life?
• What can our MOOC deal with?
• We need to be singular, to differentiate from
others

Let’s consider...
• Target audience
• Target geographical area
• Language
• Knowledge advancement/depth vs
professional deveopment

What if we’re copied?
• Take it for granted: if you idea is good, you will
be copied.
• But being copied is a measure of success
• Stay always one step ahead of others? it may
be stressing at first, but then it becomes quite
rewarding and less stressful

A real example: MOOC on Magic and
Science
• How did we have the idea?
• When did we plan it? Walking
• When did we write something down? In front
of a paella
• When did we generate actual OER’s? We’re
still at it 
• When will it be offered? In MiriadaX, quite
soon – we hope

Acknoledgment, recognition
• There is still some lack of recognition,
accounting, rewarding... and these are tough
times for university academics
• The main reward may be our own learning on
distance learning and a different way of
teaching – and the freedom of choosing the
subject
• And introducing ourselves to Open Knowledge
• Becoming kind of entrepeneurs of teaching

Collaborating
• Cohesionates a group of academics
• Opens path to interuniversity collaboration
• Creates new connections with new people
abroad

Resources
• Let’s see a MOOC this way: like a restaurant
dish –
– Food: Open Educationa Resources
– Dish: The MOOC
– Recipe: The program
– The Chef: The MOOC leader
• And of course: Restaurant’s customers: the
students (note: this is an analogy! students
are not at all customers! – or are they?

Open Resources
• Like garbage at home: Recycle, Reuse, and
perhaps even Reduce (entropy increases
always!)
• Use existing material (especially presentations
and videos) is it is good and relevant!
• KISS rule: keep it silly simple (another version
available)
• And remember: any resource you generate is
subject to your reusing!

A MOOC is the web
• The WWW has plenty of resources, good
material – thinkg of resusing it.
• But please respect atribution and permissions!
• License CC-BY-SA is possible (atribution,
sharealike)

Divide in chunks
• Don’t creat long materials
• Divide in chunks
• Short videos
• Clean material
• Each module with a few submodules
• Interconnect everything
• Plan for resource reuse!

Which kind of OER?
• Video is a key resource in MOOCs
• But it is not always the most suitable resource
• Text may be better
• A presentation may be better
• There are many types of videos!
• Think before creating content!

You are the MOOC, too
• Try to be involved in the MOOC personally
• The importance of storytelling
• Students like to see that you are human and
close
• Us your digital identify, strengthen your digital
footpring.
• You are you and your digital circumstances!

Your students are not perfect either
• Your students may face difficulties:
– Lack of digital skills
– Lack of good internet connection
– Lack of time
– Needing encouragement
– Dreaming of a fascinating course
– Difficulty in managing expectations (don’t decieve
them!)

What do others think about MOOC
planning?
• There are very good manuals to build up a
MOOC, probably much better that our way of
doing thins. Take a look at the wiki 23keys-2b
• They may focus on actual hard work, or in
strategic issues
• Remember there are meetings on MOOCs, like
#moocaton14 or #emoocs2014 at
http://www.emoocs2014.eu

3 key points to consider at start
• Why we do it?
• To whom is it targeted?
• Which is the starting point?
• And of course we still need
– What is our MOOC about?
– How are we going to organize it?
– What will be students’ new competences
• And what about empathy with MOOC
participants?

Here is an example
Color: from its Physics to its Perception
• Find it in the course’w wiki at 23keys2-d
• Just modules, submodules, main resource
• Are there multiple pathways to learning?
Multiple levels? Mulitple leaving points?
Hopefully not, but what if we think of it?

Tips on sharing
• Store OERs in the cloud:
• PPTs: slideshare
• Videos: youtube, vimeo
• Text/pdfs: slideshare, issuu, ...

Tips on team working
• Use instant messaging (e.g., whatsapp) for fast
collaboration which may be forgotten
• Use e-mail for more elaborate messages which otherwise
are worth being preserved
• Use the cloud:
– Use cloud services (google drive, etherpad) for collabarative
editing
– Use cloud services for document sharing (google drive, dropbox,
box.net, icloud)
– but AGREE first on a particular one!!
• Remember: A MOOC is the net, is the web – digital life
• Set up regular, short team meetings - review challenges,
milestones, scheduling, etc.

Tell the world!
• Tell the world about your MOOC buildup:
– tweet, facebook, blog...
– Share your enticing experience!
– Shoot developing videos!
• Accept constructive criticism
• You may be doing better that you think
• You will do better that you think!

Practise Session 1
• Think of a MOOC!
• Plan it!
• Write down modules, submodules and OER’s,
in a table
• Don’t think yet in actual assessment,
promotion, video producing or OER
generation
• Please get the broad idea though

• beware of specific requirements
– lab
– coding exercises
– wiseman: youtube is democracy
– wikipedia
– What happens when the course is over?
– Who owns annotations, comments, etc.?
– Thus: OERs
– Flux
– exercises
– Annotations
– hashtag, nom, comptes twitter etc / branding

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