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MOOC - Invent Vs Innovate
The document discusses rethinking education models by moving away from traditional approaches. It suggests asking how to invent new education models rather than tweak existing ones. It advocates designing for complexity and emergent learning outcomes rather than trying to reduce education to a set of predictable parts. Connectivism and MOOCs are presented as examples of new inventions that see learning as connecting and knowledge as a network. While MOOCs face challenges, the document argues they are culturally unique and transformative by redefining teaching and learning roles. The key question is whether we innovate or invent entirely new models.
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- 2. Challenge: Level 1: Using’4′ straight lines, connect all nine dots without breaking the line (i.e. lifting your pen off the paper). Level 2: Now using only ’3′ Lines , connect all nine dots without breaking the line. (Try to think Out of the Box).
- 3. Challenge: Level 1: Using’4′ straight lines, connect all nine dots without breaking the line (i.e. lifting your pen off the paper). Level 2: Now using only ’3′ Lines , connect all nine dots without breaking the line. (Try to think Out of the Box).
- 4. What is insidethe box for education?
- 5. The traditional classroom
- 6. The distance (e)learning classroom
- 7. The networked classroom
- 8. • Students intoteachers • Homework into Classwork • Classwork into learning by self or network, guided or unguided • Hallways and Social spaces into Classrooms • Closed curriculum to open • Degrees to badges • Fixed learning periods to flexible learning time, anywhere • Fellow students into collaborators
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- 10. What these aredoing is thinking inside the box… Sage on the Stage Taking elements Content is King an instructional process, led principally by a teacher, Under an institution, That operates as a closed factory like system …and Process Based Changing around the elements or sequences To create variations …and Hyping it as the next BIG thing Factory Mode
- 11. They are usingwhat I call the Mash-up Factory
- 12. Mashup: Game basedlocation Location aware curriculum? eBook Mobile Phone Textbook Institution Guide PC Browser Mobile Device Course VC ExamPrep Classroom Grades Job Expert Twitter Youtube Facebook PLE Certification Friends Foursquare Bookmarking Tags Tutor Reader Flickr Sustainable Music WBT New? Video Podcast Message Audio Picture Simulation Text Game Survey Movies Newspaper
- 13. Mashup: Grockit? Location eBook Tags Mobile Phone Textbook Guide PC Browser Mobile Device Course VC Institution ExamPrep Classroom Grades Job Expert Twitter Youtube Facebook PLE Certification Friends Foursquare Tutor Bookmarking Reader Flickr Sustainable Music WBT New? Video Podcast Message Audio Picture Simulation Text Game Survey Movies
- 14. What is outsidethe box innovation thinking for education?
- 15. IMHO, it isthe wrong question to ask
- 16. We need toask the question: Can we INVENT a new model of education?
- 17. Is there anotherviewpoint?
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- 19. Biggest insights Rather thanattempting to reduce a system, analytically, as the sum of its parts; look at the system as a whole. E.g. Breaking a clock down into its parts, analyzing the parts can give us an understanding of how the clock works But can we understand cities from houses and roads, human bodies from organs and bones? Or can we understand learning from analyzing curriculum and experts?
- 20. Biggest insights Rather thanattempting to design a predictable system of education, can we instead design for a system that understands the complexity? Instead of saying curriculum + content + teaching technique + student profiling + degree = education, can we instead design ecologies that lead to outcomes commonly ascribed to a good education?
- 21. Enter the MOOC Or MOOLE… Or…
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- 23. Learning is theprocess of making connections
- 24. Knowledge is thenetwork.
- 25. MOOCs are aninvention. A new way of thinking. Incomparable.
- 26. A MOOC Isan open, autonomous, networked and distributed space for sense-making Is a space where teachers and learners re-invent their roles To teach is to Model and Demonstrate To learn is to Practice and Reflect Content is no longer king; the network is Learning is more a dance of conversation than a linearly predictable path
- 27. Contrary to falsebeliefs propagated by Coursera, EdX and the rest of the xMOOCs MOOCs are nascent They face many intellectual and logistic challenges in implementation They are culturally unique They are an anathema to closed loop structures They do not have developed supporting technology
- 28. However, the MOOCis an incredibly transformative invention
- 29. MOOC or MOOT MOOT:Do we invent or innovate?
- 30. Thank You. Viplav Baxi’s Meanderings http://learnos.wordpress.com Twitter: @ViplavBaxi
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- #14 Mobile Phone equipped to handle videoNo domain constraintStory:Videos by experts talking about an important Exam Prep Area accessible anywhere and in a relevant mannersharable with networkExperts will create the video – Camera, Internet site like Blip.TV, Site capable of taking multiple inputs (tablet, whiteboard, other tools)Network of people – popularity reasons, ranking/rating/recommendationPossible problems:People won’t author without incentive or motivation; very small fraction are self-motivatedPeople skillsTherefore, how can we build HITS, thereby deriving a business model where people get paid.Incentivize with freebies, coupons, competitions and awards, Linden Dollars? – eHow/DemandMediaeHow important bit – leverage existing brand, invest in pushing people to the platform, pushing in the minimal content required to get people hookedOptionsBuild it, larger social cause (CSR), academic focus