MOOCs are online courses that are open to unlimited participation through the web. They provide traditional course materials like readings and videos as well as interactive forums to build a community. While early MOOCs emphasized open access and remixing of resources, newer MOOCs sometimes use closed licenses for materials while maintaining free access. MOOCs can be unstructured or patterned after traditional university courses, and they may provide certification or enable further education, though often no academic credits are given. The history of MOOCs began in 2004 with a connectivist course with tuition-paying and non-paying students. Major growth occurred from 2011-2013 as platforms like Coursera and edX launched and participation skyrocketed.

1. Moocs presentation
Presented by : Siphesihle xulu
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2. What is a mooc ?.
•A MOOC is an online course that is aimed at an unlimited participation
and in open access through the web, and in an addition to traditional
coarse materials such as readings, video’s and problem sets, MOOCs
provides interactive user fora that helps in building a community for
students, professors, and teaching assistants.
•Although early MOOCs often emphasized in an open access
features, such as connectivism and open licensing of
content, structure, and learning goals, to promote the reuse and
remixing of resources, and some notable newer MOOCS use closed
licenses for their coarse materials, while maintaining free access for

3. Continuation……
•It is a web-based distance learning programme that is designed for the
participation for the participation of a large numbers of geographically
dispersed students and where it may be patterned on a college or
university or it may be less structured although MOOCs doesn’t
always offer academic credits, they provide education that may enable
cirtification, employment or further studies .

4. Different types of moocs.

5. The history of moocs
•The word MOOC was established in 2008 by Dave Cormier, from the
university of prince Edward island for a course offered by the university
of Manitoba where in 2004 George Siemens and Stephen Dowens
develop the theory of connectivism, “the thesis that knowledge is
distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning
consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks
(Dowens, 2012,p.9) and where there were 25 tuition paying students
from the university and 2300 non paying students from the general
public who took the course online .There were RSS feeds for material
and participant Moodle (a learning management systerm ), blog

6. Continuation…..
•In 2010 Dave Cormier videos about MOOCs added to You Tube
(Cormier, 2010)
•In 2011 MOOC for the college preparation skills helps freshmen
prepare for the college requirements (Cormier,2011)
•In 2012 Havards first MOOC has 370000 registered students (Papar
2012) and the coarsera launched from stanford where it offered its first
MOOCs (Chen 2012).
•In 2013 MOOCs and X MOOCs too numerous to count accurately.

8. My own reflection based on moocS.
•The field of interest that I have chosen for my presentation its Art and
design because its one of my majors and I have realised that it will work
hand in hand with my chosen MOOC which is more intersting and more
into the eyes of people than my other major which is isizulu and I have
realised that it will be difficult for me to get the inspirational followers
and the MOOC coarse that is based on isizulu I have decided its better
to go for the one that works best for me and the one that has the
relevant information for my field of interest.
•For Art and design I wont have any problems for teaching it, it’s a
subject that has more fun in it and where demands a student to enjoy it

9. Continuation…..
•The topics I would like to pursue in my future MOOCs experience is the
one that is based on photography because I like taking pictures of my
own and the other general pictures that are more based in nature but
for I as a teacher it will work more for art and design where It would help
me more in analysing pictures and where ill do reviews of pictures,
paintings and drawing exhibitions in art.