This document discusses Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It provides a brief history of MOOCs, noting the first MOOC in 2008 and the rapid growth and widespread adoption of MOOCs in 2012. The document describes the two main types of MOOCs: cMOOCs which focus on connectivist and constructivist learning, and xMOOCs which focus on instructivist approaches. It also outlines the author's field of interest in a MOOC on navigating one's professional future and potential topics to cover in this MOOC.

1. MOOC
MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES
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BY : IRVIN MATSANE 201309307

2. Agenda
MOOC
BRIEF HISTORY
TYPES OF MOOC
MY FIELD OF INTEREST
MY MOOC TOPIC

3. WHAT ARE MOOCs
“A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at
large-scale interactive participation and open access via the web. In
addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and
problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a
community for the students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs).
MOOCs are a recent development in distance education.”

4. A brief history of MOOCs
 2004 - George Siemons and Stephen Downe’s developed
the theory of connectivism, which is defined as learning
with the role of social and cultural context.
 2008 - The first MOOC was presented at the University of
Manitoba with approximately 2200 learners.
 2010 – video’s about MOOCs added to YouTube by
Dave Cormier.

5. Continue. . .
 2011 – MOOCs for the college prep skills helps freshmen
prepare for college requirements (Cormier,2011).
 2012 – Harvard’s first MOOC has approximately 370 000
registered learners (Pappano,2012).
 Coursera launches from Stanford: Offers first XMOOCs
(Chen,2012).
 The New York Times call 2012 “The year of the
MOOCs.”(Pappano,2012).

6. Continue. . .
 2013 – CMOOCs and XMOOCs too numerous to accurately count.

7. Easy Ways to remember

8. Example of its evolution
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9. TYPES OF MOOCs
 XMOOCs
 This MOOC focuses mostly on Instructivist approaches to teaching as
the instructor along with the support team, record and provide video
lecturer for learning.
 Knowledge that learners have acquired are then practiced through
formative testing/ assessment as they are assessed in some sort of
graded activity.
 CMOOC
 This MOOC tends to focus more on constructivist and connectivist
approaches to learning.
 Learning truly happens when learners interact with authentic materials.
 This approach is learner centred.

10. Field of interest
Navigating Your Professional Future:

11. Topics to in pursue navigating Your
Professional Future:
 - Identify key discipline-specific and generic skills, attitudes and
abilities needed in academic and professional life.
 - Map out a professional career plan for the next five years.
 - Begin development of a professional ePortfolio.

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developing-world-moocs-start-to-get-real/
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moocs-disrupt-higher-education-or-level-playing-field-infographic