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Designing Massive-scale Social Learning
Mike SharplesAcademic Lead, FutureLearn
Professor of Educational Technology, The Open University
MASSIVEOPENONLINECOURSE
WHAT IS A MOOC?
2 to 6 HOURSper week
1,000 to 100,000 LEARNERS
OPEN to ALLNo prior
qualifications
6 to 10 WEEKSduration
SOCIAL INTERACTION
throughout
MASSIVE-SCALE EDUCATION
250 million views per year
9 million active learners
7 million course learners
5 million OU registered learners
We have excellent university partners…
We’re proud to count 26 world class universities amongst our partners…
PARTNERS
And world-leadingcontent partners…
... plus three world famous cultural institutions
PARTNERS
BRITISH LIBRARY BRITISH COUNCIL BRITISH MUSEUM
... offering free courses worldwide
and experimenting with new models of learning
… on multiple devices
DESIGNED FOR MOBILE, TABLET & DESKTOP
FutureLearn is designed for the learner to enjoy the experience whatever the location
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FUTURELEARN PRODUCT
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Built around social-constructivist learning
Designed through an agile process, with explicit input from education experts and learning technologists
All new features are determined with respect to appropriate and effective support for learning
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FUTURELEARN PRODUCT
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Draws on findings from research on effective learning
We are not simply adopting methods from previous platforms such as Moodle.
We have to rethink
for massive scale
a wide variety of learners with different abilities
self-motivation rather than learning for credit
multiple platformsMASTERY LEARNING
SELF-PREDICTION OF PERFORMANCE& PROFILES OF PROGRESSION
SOCIAL LEARNING
IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK
VISIBLE LEARNING
LEARNER COMMENT
“I read through the above article and thought “that’s interesting” then I read the comments below, particularly the discussion of niches, and suddenly thought a whole lot more. Not wishing to knock the OU in anyway because their content is excellent but it’s almost as if the basic course is in 2D but the postings lift it to 3D and really make it come alive.”
Comment posted by Karen Carmichael Timson, Learner on Ecosystems course
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PEDAGOGY OF THE MASSIVE
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Teaching, learning and assessment appropriate to massive scale learning:
FOLLOWING
Learners follow others, and being
followed within and across courses
MENTORING
Support for large groups of learners by
mentors during a course
ACTIVITY GROUPS
Small groups of learners engaged in a shared activity for a
short time
PEER REVIEWAND PEER
ASSESSMENT
All these, and other pedagogies, are being implemented in a distinctively FutureLearn way
Assessment for learning
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EXAMPLE DATA ON PEER REVIEW
Active learners 927Total assignments 300Average length of assignments 283Total reviews 495Average reviews per assignment 1.6Median minutes to first review 56
LEARNER COMMENTS ON PEER REVIEW
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: University of Birmingham
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Learning for life