This document provides an overview and outline of a course on producing low-cost MOOCs. The course will cover reasons for creating low-cost MOOCs, including lack of resources and targeting smaller audiences. Over six weeks, participants will learn about defining learning outcomes, selecting tools for content creation and video, sourcing open educational resources, project management, and building their MOOC on a platform. The style of the MOOC will either be a transmissive xMOOC or connectivist cMOOC, and participants are asked to contribute to discussions to help shape the course.

2. Why and What?
Reasons for, and overview of,
this course
Making MOOCs on a budget.
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3. Why is Low-Cost MOOC
Production important?
• Lack of resources
– Individual
– Small institution
• Sustainability

4. • Smaller target audience
– Less popular topic
– More specialised topic
– Minority language
– New technologies

5. Why is it important
to you?

6. What will I get from the course?
• The issues.
• Can I do it?
• What do I need?
• How do I do it?
• A MOOC!!

7. What will this course cover?
Project Based
MOOC

8. Week 1
• Defining your “learning
outcomes”
• Your preferred teaching
style

9. Week 2
• Selecting your Tools
– Content creation
– Video
• Open Educational
Resources

10. Week 3
• Learning Objects
– Typical objects in MOOCs
– Sourcing and Creating
– Video lessons

11. Week 4
• Project
Management
• Marketing and
Recruitment

12. Week 5
• Learner Engagement
• Assessment
• Accreditation

13. Week 6 Building your MOOC
• Selecting a platform
• Peer Assessment
• Institutional Services
• Additional Materials
• Peer Support
– Discussion Boards
– Materials contributed by
learners

14. What could be missing?
How to operate
software!

15. How can we help?
Pointers to online
resources.
Contributions by
participants.

16. Style of this MOOC
• xMOOC
– Transmission
– Videos and other
resources
– Quizzes
• cMOOC
– “Connectivist”
– We need you!

17. Activity
• What style of MOOC?
• Contribute to the
discussion.