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The document discusses an experiment in creating a MOOC without using a centralized platform. The MOOC, called Mechanical MOOC, leveraged existing open educational resources from various sources and connected them through email lists and forums. Over three sequences, the MOOC enrolled around 9,300 students total. A survey of one sequence found that around 7% of students completed all of the material, but completion may not be the best metric of success. The document concludes that platforms are not necessary for MOOCs and that learners can move between resources well, and communities may be more important than individual courses.
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- 1. It’s Alive! Steve Carson– scarson@mit.edu 8 May 2013
- 2. A simple theory:We don’t need another platform.
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- 12. HTTLCS open textbook Codecademy exercises MIT OCW videos and assignments OpenStudy for questions
- 13. Structured via e-maillist Eight week course (w 1 break week) No SME support—logistics only Communication archived on WordPress Three overlapping “sequences”
- 14. No teacher No platform No(tmuch) money
- 15. Provides a flexible frameworkfor connecting projects Leverages existing resources & investments Provides learners with persistent access to resources +’s
- 16. Lives at mercyof project production schedules Student data is scattered Certification wasn’t an option (at least not yet) -’s
- 17. Seq 2: ~2,600learners Seq 1: ~ 5,700 learners Seq 3: ~1,000 learners
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- 19. Sequence 1 Survey N= 83 Assuming a 5% response rate, 1660 “engaged learners” in week eight. 25% were finished, so around 415 complete, or ~7% of total enrollment. But do we care…?
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- 23. Thoughts Platforms are notnecessary. Learners do just fine moving across resources. Maybe communities ought to be bigger than courses.
- 24. Thoughts Openness remains important. Learnersnow define success. Maybe the problem with MOOCs will be they are too cheap to produce, not too expensive.
- 25. Finally New sequence startsin June! Thanks http://mechanicalmooc.org http://mechanicalmooc.wordpress.com