These two sessions will provide an opportunity to hear about the experiences of EMMA MOOC providers in their first year of operation. Find out what worked – and what didn’t work – during the first year’s offer of MOOCs on EMMA. This presentation was given during the EMMA Summer School, that took place in Ischia (Italy) on 4-11 July 2015. More info on the website: http://project.europeanmoocs.eu/project/get-involved/summer-school/ Follow our MOOCs: http://platform.europeanmoocs.eu/MOOCs Design and deliver your MOOC with EMMA: http://project.europeanmoocs.eu/project/get-involved/become-an-emma-mooc-provider/

1. EMMA SUMMER SCHOOL
4-11 July @ Ischia (Italy)
Experiencing MOOCs: Lesson Learnt
Rosanna De Rosa, Ruth Kerr
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TRAIN
HOOC
DESIGN

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The value of a MOOC is embedded in its pedagogical
approach and in the quality of instructional design.
As Larry Cooperman said: content is not pedagogy,
pedagogy is not instruction, instruction is not teaching
Source: instructionaldesign.org/
Creating a MOOC is not only
about putting videos and textual
material togheter.
«Lesson 0: Early focus on instructional design and pedagogical approach cannot be
avoid
:TIP instructional design
The process by which instruction is improved
through the analysis of learning needs and
systematic development of learning materials.
Instructional designers often use technology
and multimedia as tools to enhance instruction.

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Lesson 1: Give to the courses, the name that stand out or grab your interest
DESIGN
Experiencing Moocs: Lesson Learnt

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Lesson 2: Shorter courses at kinder pace (4-6 weeks). Long courses need to be sub-
divided
Alison: Nano courses: 3-4 hours
DESIGN

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Lesson 3: Storytelling is a useful way to capture the student’s attention
DESIGN

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Lesson 4: Video external sources appreciated. Acknowledge is teaching to
acknowledge
DESIGN

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Lesson 5: Video presentation must engage and invite students to join the
course
DESIGN

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Lesson 6: Long videos do not work
DESIGN
«Unsurprisingly, students engaged
more with shorter videos. Traditional in-
person lectures usually last an hour, but
students have much shorter
attention spans when watching
educational videos online. The
graph below shows median
engagement times versus video length,
aggregated over several million video
watching sessions»
Source: Philip Guo (Edx researcher:
https://www.edx.org/blog/optimal-video-length-student-engagement)

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Lesson 7: Video should be clearly structured to create priming effects
DESIGN
Tips
Priming refers to the activation of a node
in a cognitive network, which may serve
as a filter, an interpretive frame, or a
premise for further information
processingor judgment formation.[2]
Source: Wikipedia

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Lesson 8: The quality of video and content and the way the message is transmitted are
crucial: evaluate your resources several times
DESIGN
Quality of the streaming: Google report

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Lesson 9: Connect different tools
DESIGN
Source:
http://bigideasineducation.ca/

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Lesson 10: Study material should be self-contained for self-studying
DESIGN
A little success, prepare to greater success

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Lesson 1: Using threshold concepts create sense of direction and mindful learning
HOOK
Source: Ray Land, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Example: Conceptualize the research process as inquiry

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Lesson 2: Topics must be innovative and practical in some way, highlighting the
cross-topic and complementary ones
HOOK
Be creative: transform useless concepts in
new ideas

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Lesson 3: online engagement is different from off line engagement. Think about
how much empathy is an effective in a digital world and how to create it
HOOK
Promote emotional literacy

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Lesson 4: The level of engagement is higher when students clearly feel they are
progressing
HOOK
Celebrate progressing

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Lesson 5: Use communication tools to leverage the courses
HOOK
Lots of positive communications!

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Lesson 1: Teachers is not always an instructional designer: TRAIN
TRAIN
Do not take for granted that a good
f2f teacher can trasform its teaching
in an online environment: consider
the role of having a real, active
classroom

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Lesson 2: Teachers’ communication skills affect the completion rates
http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/ch11.html
Communication is more than:
• Replying questions of the students
• Solving their doubts/queries etc
• Giving some task for next class in advance
• Having group discussion out of the class
• Uploading lesson presentation to web spaces
• Check students progress
• Managing e-groups: upload, poll, discussion,
photos etc
Communication in an online education space is all
about creating a positive climate. Do not stress your
students with to much participation requests
TRAIN

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Lesson 3: Encourage/improve cross-pollination of courses
TRAIN
Cross-pollination do not happen
for magic nor as in a natural way.
Need to give instruction to users to
transform the cultural diversity
and multicultural approach from a
simple feature into a learning
opportunity

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Lesson 4: Encourage use of translation services
TRAIN
Multilingualism is a plus.
Both the teachers and students could
experience it in some way. Be creative

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Last lesson: Online teaching is not fast at all. Time and resources are
required!
Cooperation with other teachers
could
be a way for sustainability

24. More working idea
• Weekly video feedback
• EMMA stories section on website
• Create MOOC teacher group: research-based and practical
• Tutor online/offline training sessions
• Experience interdisciplinarity and/or multidisciplinarity mooc approach
• Higher visibility for the faculty participanting to Emma
Thank you