This document provides an overview of a MOOC on teaching adult learners. The MOOC is run by Debra Lunt over 4 weeks and covers topics like instructional tactics, engaging adult learners, technology in learning, and instructional design. The student selected this MOOC to gain teaching skills for both school and community education. They expect to learn effective teaching strategies, classroom management, the role of technology, and interacting with different learners. In introducing themselves, the student notes they are a 3rd year education student interested in educational topics and group learning.

1. SS Myeni
201370081 8/7/15 Teaching Studies 3B 15TST20B3

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CONTENTS
1. MOOC Overview:...............................................................................................................................................................2
2. MOOC source:.....................................................................................................................................................................3
3. The reasons why I have selected this specific MOOC...................................................................................................3
4. Expectations:.........................................................................................................................................................................4
5. Introduction to MOOC community:..................................................................................................................................4

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1. MOOC OVERVIEW:
Kind of MOOC : xMOOC
Who is running it: Debra Lunt
Duration: 4 weeks
Topics: Module 1 - Instructional Tactics:
 Topic 1: ‘What Makes Teaching Go?
 Topic 2: Gordon’s Skill Development
 Topic 3: Participants' Agreement
 Topic 4: Teaching Collaborative Skills
 Topic 5: Adult Learners Principles
 Topic 6: Instructional Tactics
 Topic 7: Values Line
Module 2 - Engaging Adult Learners:
 Topic 1: Icebreakers
 Topic 2: Think Pair Share
 Topic 3: Instructional Skills
 Topic 4: Engaging Learners: Other concepts
 Topic 5: Designing Learning / Students’Needs
Module 3 - Engaging Learners Through Technology:
 Topic 1: Introduction
 Topic 2: Students in the 21st century
 Topic 3: Advantages
 Topic 4: Challenges
 Topic 5: Gamification and Social Networking
 Topic 6: Social Learning
 Topic 7: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
 Topic 8: Scenario
 Topic 9: The Student’s Perspectives
Module 4 - Key Components of Instructional Design:
 Topic 1: Lesson Design
 Topic 2: Madeline Hunter’s Lesson Design
 Topic 3: Objectives

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 Topic 4: Mental Sets
 Topic 5: Checking for Understanding
 Topic 6: Cooperative Learning
 Topic 7: Classroom Management
2. MOOC SOURCE:
https://www.open2study.com/courses/teaching-adult-learners
3. The reasons why I have selected this specific MOOC
Since I am a Bachelor of Education student I have selected this MOOC to acquire more skills
in teaching profession that will make me know how to teach learners effectively. Moreover,
this tactics will not only assist me to teach students at school that I will be working at, but it
will also help me to know how to teach adult people in my community that are willing to get

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formal education. I am a person who is willing to teach adult people in my society since there
is a large number of people in my society that did not go to school because of Bantu
education. This MOOC I have selected will look at how to engage learners through
collaborative learning, instructional skills and design, as well as looking at the role
technology is playing in terms of promoting engaged learning environments. It will explore
the importance of creating a safe and accountable learning environment; observe an
experienced teacher who works with instructional skills and tactics to promote safe and
accountable learning environments. Those skills that I will acquire in this MOOC will work
as an advantage both to my learners that I will be teaching in school and people that I will be
teaching in my community.
4. EXPECTATIONS:
In the MOOC I have selected (Teaching Adult Learners) I am expecting to learn:
 How to examine the working factors of teaching and learning.
 Different effective teaching strategies.
 To learn classroom management for adult learners.
 Reflecting on the role technology is playing in the learning environment.
 How to interact with different kind of learners smoothly.
 How to use technology when teaching.
 Ways to make learning fun to learners.
5. INTRODUCTION TO MOOC COMMUNITY:
I am Sanele Myeni a 3rd
year Bachelor of Education student at University of Johannesburg in South
Africa. I’m a child of God, a born again Christian. I try to do what right all the time. I like reading
stuff that I come across but most of all I like reading educational stuff. I love interacting with different
kind of people from different places, I am very friendly but I can sometimes easily get angry when
things I don’t like are done to me. I like learning in groups because when I’m with the group it is
where I can get different ideas from different minds.