ASCILITE Fellow 2012 National Teaching Fellow 2012 Massive

ASCILITE Fellow 2012 National Teaching Fellow 2012 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Gráinne Conole, University of Leicester DL Forum 26 th March 2013

Outline • • • What are they? Evolving MOOC landscape Design principles Pros and Cons The OLDS MOOC Disaggregation of Education

100 million adults can’t afford university (UNESCO) Image by James Cridland

What are they? http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=e. W 3 g. MGqc. ZQc

Evolving MOOC landscape • Online course with large -scale participation adopting open practices • 2008 Connectivism and Connective Knowledge • c. MOOCs and x. MOOCs • Key players: Coursera, ed. X, Udacity • Now: Future. Learn and a new Oz platform http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=-a 2 c. Ezs. MEMY

Design principles • • Aggregation Remixing Re-purposing Feeding forward Personalised Multiple channels No ‘right’ pathway http: //www. flickr. com/photos/14852568@N 04/3363891963/

Pros and cons Free Distributed global community Social inclusion http: //alternative-educate. blogspot. co. uk/2012/12/audio-ascilite-2012 -great-debate-moocs. html High dropout rates Learning income not learning outcome Marketing exercise

http: //www. olds. ac. uk/

Disaggregation of education Resources Learning pathways Support Accreditation http: //openclipart. org/

The OER movement • Over ten years of the Open Educational Resource (OER) movement • Hundreds of OER repositories worldwide • Presence on i. Tunes. U Podcasts - i. Tunes U

The OPAL metromap Evaluation shows lack of uptake by teachers and learners Shift from development to community building and articulation of OER practice http: //www. oer-quality. org/

POERUP outputs • An inventory of more than 300 OER initiatives http: //poerup. referata. com/wiki/Countries_with_OER_initiatives • 11 country reports and 13 mini-reports http: //poerup. referata. com/wiki/Countries • Comparative analysis of transversal OER initiatives • 7 in-depth case studies • 3 EU-wide policy papers

State of the art in OER • Builds on a UNESCO conference on HE (09) • Discourse on policy and practice • How do institutions reposition themselves in an information rich world where tools and resources are freely available? http: //www. col. org/resources/publications/Pages/detail. aspx? PID=412

Combating social exclusion Completely open Free Education for all Easy to access and use Crosses boundaries Access to new knowledge and expertise • Aggregation of resources • Sharing ideas and practice • Facilitates the development of networks • • •

Learning pathways • Guided pathways through materials • Can promote different pedagogical approaches – Didactic – Constructivist – Situative – Connectivist Collaborative Pedagogical Patterns

Support • • • Computer assisted Peer support Tutor support Community support Mentoring http: //www. flickr. com/photos/24289877@N 02/5851058394/

Accreditation Peer to Peer University www. p 2 pu. org/en/ OER University wikieducator. org/OER_university/ Mozilla badges http: //openbadges. org/

Changing practices • Nature of learning, teaching and research is changing • It’s about – Harnessing new media – Adopting open practices • New business models are emerging

http: //www. slideshare. net/Grainne. Conole http: //www 2. le. ac. uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance grainne. conole@le. ac. uk http: //e 4 innovation. com