Adventures in Designing a MOOC

Brenda M. Perea, Colorado Community College System

Instructional Design Project Manager

EXPECTED OUTCOMES…..HOPEFULLY

As a result of this session attendees will be able to:

• Understand the pedagogy of a MOOC

• Create a plan for designing a MOOC

• Locate resources to be used in a MOOC

• Brainstorm a plan for implementing a MOOC

• Understand the fluid nature of MOOC participants and the MOOC itself

NEW Versions of MOOCs• aMOOC

• MOOC-Ed

• SPOC

• “Wrapped” MOOC

• “White label” MOOC

• Mini-MOOC

• DOCC:

• Participatory meta-MOOC

• SMOC

• POOC

Who Takes MOOCs and Who Succeeds

Image from EduCause Infographic-crash course in MOOCs info graphic

We Selected to build a . . .

• sMOOC—smaller-Massive Online Open Course

Why. . . .• Part of our Statement of Work for the Trade Adjustment

Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT grant) we wanted to improve access to education while increasing certificate and degree completers.

• Industry request to accelerate the time frame for their employees to become certificate and degree completers.

• Provided with $0 to build the MOOC

MOOC Prep 101

What, why, when, who, how

Critical Evaluation of WHY a MOOC for Technical Math Skills

Focus of this MOOC is not on replacing traditional MAT108 course

• Tool to “refresh” their math skills to test out of MAT108

• what is the essential skill/knowledge does the Advanced Machining student need in regards to the 17 competencies?

• Critically evaluated the “must” cover

• measurements, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, graphs, and finance.

• Supplemental resource for struggling current students

Need to Recognize Challenges

• Launching a MOOC in a traditional community college semester based system

• Developing “buy-in” from existing math faculty to “accept” the MOOC vs. traditional semester course

• Completers passing at a certain level would be encouraged to “challenge test” out of MAT108-Technical Math

• What does this do to faculty FTE

Design Challenges

• Needed to be designed and launched within 6 months

• MOOC length 4-7 weeks?—settled for a 5 week course

• Designing micro-learning “chunks” tied to specific competencies

• Needed non-textbook based course material

• Required Content contextualized for Advanced Manufacturing

Technical bumps in the road

MOOC platform host

Which host willing to work with a college system that was

already under contract with an LMS ?

Canvas allowed flexibility

MOOC host requested us to change title and refine course description to appeal to a broader audience.

• Ideas on a “new” name was Career Math

• However, that was in direct conflict with an existing CCCS courses which might lead students to confuse the course with a credit bearing course

• Used Technical Math for Industry for title

Credits, Certificates, Credentials?

•Badges

•Development and a credentialing host

•Certificate

•What is acceptable?

•Completing all modules?

•Completing at 70%, 80%?

Development Cycle

Typical MOOC Module design

•Short

•Grandular

•Recursive

Content Designed to Create “Stickiness”• Each topic had a clear “golden nugget”

•Provide relevant content

• Embed the critical ideas throughout the content

•Provide visuals

• Facilitate connection or relationship to the content

Contextualized ContentElectro-Mechanical, Engineering, Machining and Welding Courses

EGT, ELT, MAC, CAD, MTEAED, AAA, CIS, CHE, EIC, ENY, GEY, HIS, MAN, MAT, PHY, PRO, WEL, WTG

Typical Online Look and Feel

Typical Micro Learning Lesson

Majority of Math Content

Why NROCWhen we reviewed the content within the 5E model • Application points• Show and tell and do• Association with stories• Recursive/repetition• Holistic

Essential vs. secondary and supporting contentLess is more

Finding Open Resources

Open Resources in Tech Math MOOC

CHAMP URL dashboardhttp://www.symbaloo.com/shared/AAAACMSNVS0AA42Agd4JvQ==

www.merlot.orgVideos: NROC, YouTube, Khan Academy and the Internet Archivehttp://open4us.org/find-oer/http://search.creativecommons.org/http://www.oercommons.org/Presentations: Slideshare

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative MOOC Resource List URL for this list: http://tinyurl.com/elimooc

Content OER go-to’s

• http://www.merlot.org/

• https://www.skillscommons.org

• http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

• http://dp.la/

• https://www.cteonline.org/

• https://www.khanacademy.org

• http://www.saylor.org/

• Cnx.org and OpenStax, http://cnx.org/

• YouTube

Beta MOOC

Passive Participant

Active Participant

Learn about interesting topics New Career or

skills for work

2-4 hours

Location of participants

Highest Level of Education

Western Europe

AsiaS. America

Age Group

N. America

45-54

What’s Next?

Badges

• Do we want badges for all modules?

• Or identify what skills are high priority, backwards design those skills to a competency, and award badge for competency?

Badges for skill attainment?

Resources

• https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B08f8ldKmmAGc3hPbWxQaTRjQjQ&usp=sharing

Webinars and Videos explaining TAACCCT Requirement for CC BY• http://vimeo.com/43142376

Links to Creative Commons Resources:• http://open4us.org/faq/• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/• http://open4us.org/resources/cc-by-license-implementation-deep-dive-resources/

CHAMP URL dashboard• http://www.symbaloo.com/shared/AAAACMSNVS0AA42Agd4JvQ==

License Chooser tool: • http://creativecommons.org/choose/

Other URLs:If anything is uploaded to the sites in the following web link, the are automatically attributed with a CC license: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/PublishFor the http://ampednh.com/ website http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/Creators

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