Standard MOOC in a small worldIngrid Melve, Open Forum, Oslo, 2014-06-20

Ingrid Melve

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eCampus: national program for video, collaboration tools and IT architecture for flexible higher education

Work for UNINETT, the Norwegian research network

Building infrastructure, supporting inter-institutional ICT

Prestandard work: specifications

Campus Best Practices: collate, discuss, share, revise

Examples: AV and media equipment for classrooms, security, eduroam, Infrastructure for digital examinations

Joint procurement on basis of best practice documentation

Twitter and Skype: @imelve

MOOC

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Massive Open Online Course

Courses that are:

Online

Massive, scaleable in number of participants

Open, anyone may sign up

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Norwegian MOOC panel (some of the recommendations)

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National platform & portal

Shared learning design support

Learning analytics

Work/education skill support

Open Educational Resources

No tuition for higher education

Start to do MOOC, sort out regulations and practice

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MOOC production

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Learning resources:

In theory: Dublin Core, SCORM or LOM

Video used actively

Follow video with Multiple Choice Quiz to self-assess learning

Forums (how useful are they?)

Student peer review

May include formal assessment (often out-of-band)

MOOC production cost

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Major investment: knowledge base for teaching

MOOC platform

Learning design for MOOC

Organizational change: from solo to teamwork

Technical production

Evaluation/exam cost

Include running operational cost

MOOC distribution

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MOOC is web-based (and in apps)

MOOC platform

Leverage existing content distribution infrastructure

YouTube, Content Delivery Networks,

PCs, tablets, smart phones

Available in a language you understand?

Signing up from anywhere

Pervasive monitoring

Big brother is watching

Export restrictions

Countries are excluded

Organizations are excluded

Persons are excluded

Learning analytics distribution?

Distribution, security and privacy

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Follow up students

Assigned discussion topics, interact with text etc

Forums

Hangouts (teaching assistants or professors)

Lab exercise

Office hours?

MOOC interaction and collaboration tools

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MOOC assessments

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Formal verifiable assessment of whether the students have reached their learning objectives

Inside MOOCs multiple choice tests proliferate

ECTS

Formal assessments online is unsolved territory

Growing assortment of solutions for online examinations

1. Control mechanisms built into MOOC platform

2. Online proctoring

3. Proctor centers, travel to nearest center

4. Travel to campus, ordinary exams

Important standards for MOOC

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Production: Video standards for mobile devices, open access

Distribution: IP, Wifi, mobile support, content distribution

Collaboration: web (HTML5, HTTPS et al), Web-RTC

Evaluation: credit transfer (ECTS), identity/authorization (SAML, OpenID Connect)

MOOCs in a small world

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Scaling is possible: production, distribution and collaboration

Open is conceivable: OER, sharing, reuse

MOOCs are a step towards better education: start walking