Students as agents of change: experiences of co-producing a mOOC

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Students as agents of change: Experiences of co-producing a mOOC

Natalie Lafferty & Annalisa MancaUniversity of Dundee

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The tale of our evolving journey supporting students to develop open online learning

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Dundee School of Medicine - strong tradition of supporting peer-led learning approaches & peer tutoring

Learning resources developed as part of student self-proposed student selected component (SSC) projects …Integrated into teaching

Peer learning in Web 2.0 WorldDundeePRN – Developed by students supported by staff

“Issues of professionalism, responsibility for content, interprofessional working and effective collaboration have all come to the fore for the group. Overall, we firmly believe that developing student-led e-learning and online professionalism can provide an avenue through which young professionals can develop lifelong learning skills, experience continuing professional development and learn and work in a professional

community.”

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Community of practice in learning began to developStudents – Teachers – Educationalists – Ed Technologists

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Success can lead to problems and frustrations …

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Student interest and enthusiasm can come in waves

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Time … reinventing wheels

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How could we develop a sustainable approach to supportingstudents as producers of learning?

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HEA Project – Students as partners in the curriculum

JISC 2009 … Students should play a role in working with teachers to develop teaching and learning delivery by working in partnership with them.

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Concept: co-create a series of mini open online courselets to develop the skills of a digital teacher supported by open badges

CopyrightIntroduction to copyright issues, Creative Commons, patient consent etc

Managing resources

Presentations/Learning design

Developing

online activities

Formative

assessment

Feedback

Accessibility, usability – fonts, colour schemesCognitive load, multimedia design principles

Running a Twitter chat, using a blog to support learning activities

How to write a good assessment questions, eg MCQs

Incorporating feedback into your learning resource/activity and different forms of feedback

Searching for resources, managing & curating resources

Proposed mini OOC topics

Content for each OOC co-created with studentsand alpha tested with students

Beta version hosted on WordPress

ITERATIVE CYCLES: testing and refining

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DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES

SSC – The doctor as a digital teacherOpportunity to test and evaluate mini OOC topics

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Exploration and discussion of general educational principles, which serve as a basis for the development of any digital teaching activity

Developing

online activities

Formative

assessment

Feedback

Running a Twitter chat, using a blog to support learning activities

How to write a good assessment questions, eg MCQs

Incorporating feedback into your learning resource/activity and different forms of feedback

TESTING mini OOC topics

CopyrightIntroduction to copyright issues, Creative Commons, patient consent etc

Managing resources

Presentations/Learning design

Accessibility, usability – fonts, colour schemesCognitive load, multimedia design principles

Searching for resources, managing & curating resources

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OBSERVATION AND ANALYSIS

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ITERATIVE CYCLES: testing and refining

2015

Testing with staff: mini OOC topics as part of an online CPD course

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Things we’ve learned on this latest leg of our journey

REFLECTION

Assumptions … Students are not all digital maestros

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Need to run sessions on how to set up a blog before we run the mini OOCs with students and staff in the open

Encouraging reflective practice …

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLShttp://www.flickr.com/photos/naturewise/6219571665/

(Siemens 2005; Sandars 2009)

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All 5 students asked to continue the experience by developing 4th Year Projects and keen to contribute to further development of the mini OOCs and be mentors

Still under construction … an evolving ecosystem

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