This document discusses sustainable interpersonal communication strategies for MOOCs on a budget. It recommends using email for notifications and task management while also utilizing social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Specific suggestions include using Twitter for a backchannel during livestreams, enabling student questions and responses on forums, and using searchable archives like Twitter and Instagram. To manage multiple social accounts cost effectively, it recommends free tools like TweetDeck and the paid tool HootSuite. The document ends by asking for opinions on whether MOOCs need to limit tools to only those provided by the hosting platform.

2. Making MOOCs on a Budget
Pedagogies and Communication
Sustainable Interpersonal
Communication

3. Sustainable Interpersonal
Communication
• Students-to-students
– They will keep in touch and
communicate in multiple ways
disregarding the MOOC team desires
• Staff-to-students
– Platforms allow to send massive e-
mails every now and then
– Platforms seldom have simple and
useful tools like twitter or facebook

4. Sustainable Interpersonal
Communication
• Rational use of E-mail
– E-mail has been declared dead many times...
– But e-mail is more alive than ever
• E-mail is being used as center for
– Notifications
– Task management (along with calendar)

5. Sustainable Interpersonal
Communication
• One may use:
– Hangouts
– Livestreaming + twitter
backchannel
– Open discussion and forums
– Clubs, groups and regional
meetups
– Social networks
– Contests
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6. Sustainable Interpersonal
Communication
• Allow for students to answer other students’
questions
• Monitor unanswered questions
• Correct minor errors and problems

7. Sustainable Interpersonal
Communication
• Let the world know about student-student
and student-staff interactions
• Use searchable and archiveable
communication systems if possible: e.g.,
twitter, instagram. And public/open.

8. Video annotations
• Youtube annotations
• Open Video Annotations
– http://www.openvideoannotation.org

9. On a budget...
• Saving time: Simple tools/social networks:
twitter for text with some images; instagram
for images with some text. Gmail + google
services.
• Saving money: to manage twitter (several
accounts), just use TweetDeck, free.
• Saving energy: to manage several social
network accounts (write once, multiple
publishing) spend some money in HootSuite.

10. Question open for discussion
• Question: do we need to stick to tools
provided by the platform hosting our
MOOC?
Tell us about your opinion !

11. Thanks for your attention.