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This document summarizes a workshop about designing and delivering a massive open online course (MOOC) on e-portfolios. The MOOC was completed by over 300 participants and was designed to be facilitated, collaborative, self-directed and networked. It included goals and badges to guide participants, online discussions, webinars, and reflective blogs. Ongoing research, newsletters, and feedback ensured the course was challenging, supportive and continuously improved. In the end, most participants achieved the course goals as reflected in final surveys and evaluations.
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EpCoc MOOC session
- 1. massive open online course success story for e-portfolios community of practice Coach Carole 2011
- 2. MOOC – a new way to learn! • This workshop will introduce you to the epcop mooc and unpack the learning the team had in designing, developing and delivering a massive open online course on eportfolios to 300+ participants, totally online. • Instructional designers, coordinators, teachers and managers will enjoy this session and take away with them an understanding of the latest in learning models, the MOOC, and some strategies to make the best use of the epcop mooc. • Please ask questions at the Q&A points along the way Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 3. agenda • What is a MOOC? • E-portfolio Aims and Objectives • Collaborative design • Discussions and Networks • Collaboration and Facilitation • Reporting and Evaluation Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 4. Unpacking a MOOC! Free Facilitated Collective Self-directed Networked Back channelled Modular Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 5. E-Portfolio aims and objectives VET practitioners developing a professional e-portfolio to support their CPD needs (eg industry and professional currency) Three types of e-portfolio use in mind: • Lifelong learning • Current course participation • Recognition of Prior Learning Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 6. Can one e-portfolio do the job? Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 7. What is an e-portfolio? Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 8. Mind-mapping the design Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 9. Building steps Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 10. How the EpCoP began! August 2010 – June 2011 • VET E-portfolio Roadmap • Googlesite • Googlegroup • Monthly webinars http://epcop.net.au http://conversations.epcop.net.au Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 11. The MOOC learnspace June 2011 – August 2011 • Google site selected for ease of Collaboration on MOOC design https://sites.google.com/site/epcoplearnspace Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011 /
- 12. The MOOC community • Ning site chosen for ease of managed communications http://epcopmooc.ning.com/ Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 13. The MOOC reflections http://moocepcop.edublogs.org/ Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 14. Designed in: LearnSpace Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 15. missions & quests Level 1 quests: • Commit some time • Set up a blog • Attend a webinar • Do some reading • Do some listening • Create a personal plan • Introduce yourself Do some networking • Have fun! Level 1 mission: Establish your understanding of e-portfolios. Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 16. Achievement badges Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 17. Community: at the Ning Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 18. Discussions & networks Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 19. Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate • Facilitators • Mentors • Webinars Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 20. Suite of webinars Epcop.net.au Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 21. Challenge and support Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 22. Weekly newsletters Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 23. Continuous research ScoopIt Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 24. Bloggers gallery http://www.netvibes.com/coach_carole#EpCoP_MOOC_blogs Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 25. My e-portfolio in google Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 26. Voicethreads Feedback from MOOCers • Recorded in voice • For each level • Throughout MOOC Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 27. Mightybell experience 7 Actions as a final reflection Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 28. Mightybell completions As at Oct 11 Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 29. Survey and Evaluation Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
- 30. Contact: Coach Carole coachcarole2012@gmail.com EpCoP http://epcop.net.au MOOC https://sites.google.com/site/epcoplearnspace/ Eportfolio Australia Conference 2011
Editor's Notes
- Introduce myselfThis workshop will show you how to collaboratively design, develop and deliver a MOOCWelcome to a new world of teaching – MOOCsThere is a wave of excitement on the web from those who participate in MOOCs – they are finding that their learning increases exponentiallyWhy?They choose when and where, how much and for whom, They interact with designers and facilitators on a different levelmassive numbers of global participants and critical mass of activity
- Provide an update on the numbers participating –365 registered and 222 joined the Ning communityRegistrations began in July and we launched on August 1 Opened up the Ning for self enrolment in first week People are now waiting in the wings for the next delivery – hopefully we’ll do another in 2012
- A brief overview of a MOOC
- Here’s another way to describe it – thanks to Sui Fai John Mak for her fabulous drawing of the mooc cowWithin a mooc we experience a mashup of many different web 2.0 tools and processes in developing our understandingMany ways to communicate between the many – facebook, twitter (we’ve added skype and google+)There were multiple back channels happening with many using their personal blogs to reflect – we’ve mashed them together tooSome of the Skype MOOCers still communicate via Skype and the Google+ group have notA MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course. It is a gathering of participants, of people willing to jointly exchange information and collaboratively enhance their knowledge.Others available now Change11– about elearning in general and its impact on us – featuring big names George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Nancy White and coI think that we’ll see many more of them in the future
- Aims of the epcop and the mooc to enhance awareness of and build ecapability in the use of eportfolios for:Lifelong learningCurrent course participationRecognition of Prior LearningAcross a broad range of educational disciplines and types of learners.
- This was the guiding principle behind our philosophy on providing tuition in eportfolios – there are multiple versions and multiple purposesDid not set out to teach about one eportfolio system but to provide guidance in the concept of eportfolio approach to learning –putting the ownership in the hands of the learners and to encourage uptake of eportfolios for lifelong learning
- This was developed from the original image created by Dr Helen Barrett and shows how participants in the MOOC can plan to incorporate:CollectionsReflectionsAchievements Communications For lifelong learningThis diagram became a very useful visual for others to describe an eportfolio and it popped up in many blogs
- Produced in poplett http://popplet.com/app/#/27819 This began as a discussion on the sequential steps one may take in developing an eportfolio:The What, Why, Where, How, So What, Now What, Then WhatEach part of the design was built into a collection of learning resources and instructions in a googlesiteEach of the questions was supported with clarifying statements contributed by each member of the design teamFlexibility of this tool enabled an easy collaboration in a short amount of timeThis was embedded in a web page of the googlesite
- So we started thinking about how to promote the learning and implementation of eportfolios for educators – one of the deliverables of the Eportfolio Project from the Framework for this year. The VET E-portfolio Roadmap: a strategic roadmap for e-portfolios to support lifelong learning.We needed a space for the eportfolios community of practice across AustraliaBuilt a googlesite which aggregated many resources for ep practitioners and promoted events such as webinars and conferencesA companion google group was established to begin the conversations with members – over 160 members – over 100 topics – ongoingJoin group at http://conversations.epcop.net.au – ask a question or advertise an eportfolio eventMembership is international and our webinars are featured on the global eportfolio calendar
- I floated the idea of a MOOC with Allison Miller, business manager for eps, FrameworkFunding was made available and we gathered a team of willing designers and facilitatorsBuilt the learnspace collaboratively – each page came together after weekly meetings and comments directly on the pages Note: googlesite is easy to use and shareCollaborators focussed on areas of strength and contributed, glossary, resource kit, newslettters, videos and other toolsThe MOOC design began to take shape – it was like doing a design online with the whole world looking over our shouldersWe began reflecting on our progress in a blog for the mooc – weekly articles were built collaboratively in googledocs first
- We modelled good reflective practice!We used a collaborative google doc to compose each week’s post and delegated the task of publishing on a roster systemThe Blog was our reporting mechanism back to the ERGWe invited moocers to comment to give feedback and testimonials but that did not happenIt provides a timeline of our achievements in an easily digestible formatWe’ve used the design from the blog for our webinar slide templates
- the navigation tools in the googlesitelearnspace enabled us to expand the Activities and indent or move pages as required throughout the experience.The site enabled each design team member to edit and amend when required. The entire learnspace remains as a useable learning site for others who are learning about or teaching others about eportfolios it contains the following:Resource KitGlossary of termsVideos and Audio recordingsAdvice, recommendations and instructionsSequenced set of missions along with quests to help fulfil the missions
- The content pages for missions and quests with their different colour borders as page identifiers in the learnspace, provided the model of learning about eportfolios and brought in the gaming element lightly.Importance of deciding for themselves if they have completed all quests and can claim a badge – open and self-directed learning The learning was scaffolded with regular webinars and back channel conversations along with the formal discussion forums in the Ning community
- Instructions on how to capture the badge images from the quest pages and add to their blog or eportfolios was provided in the Ning community.These badges became the individual’s way of claiming completion of each level in the learnspace.They were used again in the Mightybell experience for the final reflection on the MOOC as markers for each action.
- introduce the community site at the Ning – we now have over 222 members who have joined – This was the way the site looked initially – to set the scene for the 7 levels and the colour matched badges
- The forums were set up for each level in the Ningfor ease of participation. There were often 1 or 2 topics per level allowing for different branches of conversations – you can return to them at any time. In hindsight it would have been better to allow the participants to create their own topics, however, we were cautious in the beginning and sought to avoid spamming.We enabled participants to set up their own groups in the Ning and join the Skype Groups and Google+ hangoutsManagement of the discussions through the team and individual monitoring in our emailssupport from facilitators – rostered online presence and swift responses
- frequency, timing and location of the webinars – through the Australia e-Series http://australiaseries.wordpress.com Tuesday mornings for the guest presenters and pedagogy sessionsThursday mornings and evenings for the challenge mentor sessions on web 2.0 tools
- We now have an archive of 28 webinars all housed at: https://sites.google.com/site/eportfoliocommunity/epcop-mooc
- challenge gallery items included links to tutorials and blogs about the web 2.0 tools, another resource kitThe challenge mentors are also available in the Facebook group for the eportfolio community of practice
- The weekly newsletters provided a brief summary of what was coming up, the characters used and the lighthearted format provided fun and engagement, and the information on page two was helpful to participants as reminders for upcoming webinars and quests. Newsletters were published in the forums of the Ning each week and archived in the learnspace.
- Continuous research being done through the Scoop It tool – a collaborative way to capture links, articles, tweets and websites on a selected topic
- Everyone’s blogs aggregated into a netvibes page for ease of viewing Another way to report on the participationhttp://www.netvibes.com/coach_carole#EpCoP_MOOC_blogs
- What am I doing for my own eportfolio?Building in artefacts and reflections from my own experiences as I gohttps://sites.google.com/site/coachcaroleeportfolio/
- More evaluation and feedback in voice and another way for demonstrating the use of toolshttp://voicethread.com/?#u660455.b2167505.i11559323
- Interesting statistics: 1st to finish was Ali in Montreal, Quebec – yet he had not posted in the ning community at allA few others who did the Mightybell actions were not active in the community forums
- A good number (75) completed their survey on eportfolio skillsOnly 11 responded to the request for an evaluation (even though a prize was offered) – Allison to choose the winner laterUseful to see the summary of responses from a google form – most revealing – these statistics now enable me to report graphically to the ERG
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