OER17: Teaching by Twitter – leaking a self-contained MOOC into the Twittersphere
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This document discusses using Twitter to "leak" a self-contained MOOC (massive open online course) into the broader Twittersphere. Specifically, it describes how the Open University's cybersecurity MOOC, hosted on FutureLearn, tweets course content summaries in sequence during each presentation to promote discussion on Twitter. Over 170,000 people have registered for the cybersecurity MOOC to date, with an average 20% completion rate, making it the OU's most successful STEM MOOC. By "leaking" the closed MOOC community onto open Twitter, the authors aim to further engage learners and spread awareness of the course topics.
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OER17: Teaching by Twitter – leaking a self-contained MOOC into the Twittersphere
- 1. OER17 - Teaching by Twitter – leaking a self-contained MOOC into the Twittersphere Hannah Gore … Andrew Smith @HRGore … @teraknor
- 2. Nerds!!! 2
- 3. Or geeks – who cares, we are proud of it? We are Nerds! 3
- 4. Who? 4
- 5. Who? That Bio Slide! 5 Hannah Gore - Senior Producer: MOOCs at The Open University. Thesis writing doctorate student. Canine cohabiting vegan. Tweeting about life learning & random things in life … @HRGore Andrew Smith - Academic, Examiner, Author, Linux/Cisco/Security, Packet Tracer & prog rock fan. Geekologist & Quantum Nerd who dabbles with social media … @teraknor
- 7. @OUCyberSec Twitter Feed of the FutureLearn CyberSecurity MOOC 7
- 8. @OUCyberSec How it works … 8 • Runs during each presentation of the MOOC • Tweets run in sequence with content • Tweets are based on the content • Each day at 18:30, 19:30 and 20:30 • Max run of 10 weeks • Up to four times a year • Some intervening tweets between presentations
- 9. @OUCyberSec FutureLearn Affordances 9 • 10 complete presentations on FutureLearn to date • 8 weeks at 3 hours a week totalling 24 hours of study featuring OU visiting professor Cory Doctorow • CESG certified training course • Addresses the topics of; threat landscape; authentication, malware, networking and communications, cryptography, network security, when defences fail, and managing security risks.
- 10. @OUCyberSec MOOC behaviour … 10 • The most successful STEM MOOC the OU has produced • Over 170,000 registrations to date • Average 20% completion rate • Highest number of certificates purchased upon completion of 60 OU MOOCs produced to date • Learners undertaking MOOC due to personal interest, professional interest and relevancy to work with 20% of learners stating the MOOC helped them with preparation for further study • Learners demonstrating a consistent pattern in categories of Active Learner and Returning Learner
- 12. Letting your self contained MOOC escape! Leaky Teaching! • Based on experiences of @OUCisco (uses Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn). • Getting the contained community to move beyond their confines • Promoting the MOOC and presenting a topic within an open space 12
- 14. More Groovy Data Leaky Teaching! 14
- 15. Understanding the … Groovy Data Leaky Teaching! 15 Knowing the difference between impressions, mentions and visits Something that is seen yet is not interacted with – it has appeared in someone's social media feed as they scroll past or lingered over
- 16. Conclusion! If there is one? 16
- 17. Conclusion! Do Bears **** in the woods? • Something is happening – also seen with @OUCisco, the community engages albeit via impressions • Twitter epitomises the Legitimate Peripheral Participation (of Lave and Wenger) • Yet we wonder if it is more than this? 17
Editor's Notes
- Can you turn it off and on again
- And eater of Bacon!
- Using a twitter feed to create an extension of the CyberSecurity MOOC This MOOC on futurelearn reaches between 10K to 25K per presentation Raises profile and offers an ‘alternate’ space Based on @OUCisco experiences which has been presented in the past at ALT-C
- Basically the social media content is synchronised with the taught content Cyclical in nature
- Lots of clever teccie cybersecurity stuff that these bods like Endorsed by GCHQ and Cabinet office … dunno if this is good or bad ;-)
- In mooc terms the completion rate is high
- This slide speaks for itself The community does ask questions they do also respond No trolling yet probably too dull or because it is clear that two males manage the feed
- Spikes show each presentation cycle Also impressions are more meaningful than followership When you linger over a tweet, this is an impression … also embedded feeds count, so they do not need to be followers
- Early on we saw more visits as Futurelearn were involved in some of the social media love However it has settled down and has a reasonably steady trend
- Why is everyone obsessed with followership – this is in our view not the measure of impact
- Speaks for itself Twitter has become the extended ‘lurker’ observer space