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Open Education & Connectivist MOOCs Christina Hendricks, Sr. Instructor, Philosophy & Arts One, UBC CTLT Institute, UBC, May 27, 2013 Slides licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada license (CC-BY)
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Open Education & Connectivist MOOCs

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A presentation given to the CTLT Institute (Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology) at the University of British Columbia in May, 2013. In it I introduce open education, MOOCs, xMOOCs vs cMOOCs, and discuss ETMOOC--a cMOOC I participated in in 2013--as an example of a cMOOC to better explain what (some) cMOOCs are like.
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Open Education & Connectivist

MOOCs

Christina Hendricks, Sr. Instructor, Philosophy & Arts One, UBC

CTLT Institute, UBC, May 27, 2013

Slides licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada license (CC-BY)

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Openness

• Open source (software)• Open access (publishing)• Open data• Open government• Open business• Open schools• Open education, open educational resources

Possible to have definition for openness generally?• Free & full access, ability to reuse, revise, remix,

redistribute

See, e.g., http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Open

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Open Education(some suggested characteristics)

Open Content

• Free & open educational materials & courses: no cost access, licensed to allow reuse & modification• Often called “open educational resources”

(OER)(see, e.g., http://is.gd/t9ErV6)

• David Wiley’s “4 R’s” for OER (http://is.gd/uEC3hj)• Reuse• Revise• Remix• Redistribute

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Open Education(some suggested characteristics)

Open content, cont’d

• Free and open instruction, such as lectures, demonstrations being available to watch and revise/remix

Stephen Downes’ blog (2010) http://is.gd/lz5dKo

• Assigned readings free and open: e.g., open textbooks that students can not only read for free but copy/paste, print, take notes on, etc.

David Wiley’s open course on Open Education: http://is.gd/uEC3hj

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Open Education(some suggested characteristics)

Student work and discussions

• Asking students to post some work on publicly available blogs, wikis, video sites, etc.

• Some course discussion may be open: e.g., recording lecture/discussion & posting online, blogs & comments, wikis, Twitter & other social media tools

David Wiley’s open course on Open Education: http://is.gd/uEC3hj

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MOOCs

• Massive

• Open

• Online

• Course

• MOOC enrollment & completion rates http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html

• Some more than others; depends on mng of “open”

• Depends on mng of “course”

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https://www.coursera.org/ubchttps://www.udacity.com/

https://www.edx.org/ http://novoed.com/

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xMOOCs & cMOOCs(Terms introduced by Stephen Downes)

xMOOCs

• Focus is on learning content

• Instructors at centre, providing, organizing content & assessments

• Students encouraged to go through course uniformly & linearly

• Course is housed in one “place” on the web

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xMOOCs & cMOOCs

Connectivist MOOCs (cMOOCs)

• Major focus is on developing connections between participants to promote learning from each other

• Instructors facilitate connections rather than acting as the main, centralized sources of knowledge

• Participants create own paths through course

• Course is distributed in various places on the web (though often with a central hub of info)

See, e.g. http://is.gd/K5JfXK http://is.gd/hZfG4d http://is.gd/DEqD1U

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From Dave Cormier’s video on MOOCs: http://is.gd/cQwOSP

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xMOOCs & cMOOCs

Often cMOOCs involve:

• Aggregating: Collecting/reading/viewing info provided in course & what you & others find outside

• Remixing & repurposing: Blogging, discussing online, creating new ideas & artifacts

• Sharing: giving all of the above back to community & opening it to the public (if you want)

Adapted from: http://change.mooc.ca/how.htm

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ETMOOC(Jan-March 2013)

http://etmooc.org

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ETMOOC(Jan-March 2013)

http://storify.com/clhendricksbc/favourite-tweets-from-etmooc-2013

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(Jan-March 2013)

http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2013/03/22/goodbye-etmooc/

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Ideas for future: cMOOC extensions of on-campus courses

Bryan Jackson, Gleneagle Secondary School, Coquitlam, BChttp://talonsphilosophy.wordpress.com/

Alec Couros, Univ. of Regina http://eci831.ca

Thoughts about this on my blog: http://is.gd/n7FGDF

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Thank you! And contact info

Christina HendricksSr. Instructor, Philosophy & Arts One, UBC

Website: http://blogs.ubc.ca/christinahendricksBlog: http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks

Twitter: @clhendricksbc

Slides licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada license (CC-BY)