Massive

By: P.T Mahlangu

Open

Online

Course

MOOC is an online learning and teaching network.

It has facilitators that facilitate learning on the internet, from anyway in the world.

MOOC is a suitable network for online group working.

MOOC is a way of distributing information on line from anyway in the world to anyway in the world.

MOOC is a way to connect and collaborate

with other people.

For example it gives us teachers to share our

ideas with other teachers.

For marketers it gives them a chance to sell

themselves to anyone in the world.

Connectivist MOOC

xMOOC

Task Based MOOCs

“xMOOC usually has one or more higher

education colleges or schools behind it, and, in

some cases, a for-profit company. A great deal of

money is required to develop video and other

course content in a MOOC and to operate the

platform. Funds are provided either by the

institution, by private investors”

http://www.slideshare.net/MASIKANE93/mo

ocs-31456314

“Conwhere learners use digital platforms

such as blogs and social media platforms to

make connections with content, learning

communities and other learners to create

and construct knowledgenectivist MOOC is

based on the idea that learning happens

within a network”

http://www.slideshare.net/MASIKANE93/mo

ocs-31456314

Social Network Knowledge Construction

MOOCS HAVE EASY ACCESSIBLE CONTENT

ONLINE DELIEVERY IN ANY FIELD OF INTEREST.

COURSES ARE FREE AN ONLINE, AND

REQUIRES ONE TO BE NA ACTIVE PARTICIPANT

IN THEIR FIELD OF INTEREST OF STUDY.

PROVIDES RESOURCE MATERIALS RANGING

FROM VIDEOS, READINGS AND PROBLEM SETS

TO FACILITATE LEARNING EFFECTIVELY.

MOOC is more of a social network, where the

internet connects a million people from a

million miles away from each other.

People learn and teach each other on

line, this is how information is distributed

through the course of MOOC

You can share information with people in the

same professional field as you, same level as

you in life.

With MOOC anyone from anywhere in the world can participate in activities on line.

MOOC is open for everyone.

It is a long life learning network on line.

With MOOC you get to share and keep your work.

You get feedback on your work and get to improve your work.

MOOC allows facilitators and learners to engage in the process of learning.

MOOC is all around us, especially our generation, almost everything we do is relied on the internet.

It does not cost anything and it is easily accessible to everyone who needs it.

The Information is shared with everybody who participates.

MOOC allows you not to only share

information or knowledge with people you

working with only but also with people

working with other people.

So basically MOOC is an online flexibly

network that allows the flow of information

to be as flexibly as possible.

http://www.slideshare.net/chrispaton/moocs-16395994?qid=dfeb6557-b9b3-46cf-

a5c1-7e34da78c104&v=default&b=&from_search=11 – Dr Chris Paton (07/02/2013)

http://www.slideshare.net/MASIKANE93/moocs-31456314

http://oertools.weebly.com/moocs.html