how mooc learning reaches students through tpd
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This presentation describes a course in teacher professional development that has been evolving gradually into a MOOC model. MOOCs enable participants to articulate and explore individual learning strategies. This differentiates master learners from those they are employed to teach. When learners must adapt to jobs that haven’t been invented yet, teachers must help learners become master learners; otherwise their ‘training’ only applies to known jobs.TRANSCRIPT
What’s with the MOOCs? How MOOC Learning Reaches Students through
TPD
Vance StevensHigher Colleges of Technology, UAE
AAMC / PACE / KBZAC
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You don’t need to take notes!
All my slides are online• http://slideshare.net/vances
A writeup of this presentation will appear in the next issue of http://tesl-ej.org/ , drafted here:• http://tinyurl.com/tacon2013vance
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Early MOOCs for ESLMOOCs started with CCK08 in 2008, but …• 1997 http://study.com
(1000’s)• 1998: Writing for
Webheads (100’s)• 2001: Electronic Village
Online EVO (1000’s)• 2002: Webheads in Action (100’s-1000)
From Leigh Blackall’s post: http://www.leighblackall.com/2012/10/a-trueer-history-of-moocs.html
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MultiMOOC
http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com
Vance Stevens - TACON Conference Dubai - March 2013
The spirit of multiMOOC?• Aspires to be– Distributed /
Connectivist– Directed at constructed
knowledge– Unstructured / informal– Negotiated– Self-directed– Self assessed– Directed at deep
learning vs. training
• Follows Cormier’s 5 steps for success in a MOOC– Orient– Declare– Network– Cluster– Focus
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OK, then, what is a MOOC?
Vance Stevens - TACON Conference Dubai - March 2013
What is a MOOC• Massive - about scale
– relies on increased chance of interactions from a critical mass of participants
– curriculum more and more from participants; less from top down• Open - not just free, but
– open access– open syllabus, not necessarily pre-scribed
• Online - – Internet changes equation where the balance is tipped toward abundance– completely different playing field from scarcity
• Course - – Structure– Cohesion based in experience
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Connectivism
In this YouTube video, Siemens says at min 1:13http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqL_lsogeNU&feature=youtu.be
"Have you ever thought about how completely irrelevant structured learning is?"
Siemens, G. (2004-5). Connectivism: A Learning theory for the digital age. Elearnspace. Retrieved August 17, 2011 from http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
Siemens’s conclusions can be startling
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Siemens on ‘the path to knowledge’
• “I’m not aware of any research actually that says linear structure produces better outcomes than more chaotic meandering structure.
• Our intent, based on our theories of learning is to argue that the experience of learning, making sense of that chaos, is actually the heart of the learning experience,
• but if an instructor makes sense of that chaos for you and gives you all the readings and sets the full path in place for you then to a degree you are eviscerating the learner’s experience because now you’ve made sense of them and all you’ve told them is ‘walk the path that I’ve formed’.
• When it comes to complexity I’m a great fan of letting learner’s hack their way through that path and getting the value of that learning experience and that sense-making process.”
Quotes on this and next slide transcribed fromhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMfipxhT_Co&feature=related.
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Why MOOCs
Stephen Downes 2012; posted in Alan Levine: http://cogdogblog.com/2012/09/21/just-ds106/
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OK, then, what is a MOOC?
Lisa Lane : http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/2012/08/three-kinds-of-moocs/
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xMOOCs and cMOOCsSource: http://mooc13.wordpress.com/kategorien/vergleich-x-und-c/
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Downside of xMOOCs?
• Throw-back to old models of learning
• Potentially negative impacts on branding
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What are they good for?
Domains of the Cynefin model: David Snowdenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin
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What’s in it for language teachers?
• MOOCs must be experienced! (Take one)• Help teachers become master learners• Focus on WHY things happen vs. HOW• Help teachers learn about – Learning strategies and heuristics– Collaborative learning
Picture source: http://www.mtlsd.org/mellon/teams/ironbrigade/bloomsdigitaltaxonomy.asp
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The Future of MOOCs
“The connectivism model will become the primary model … they have to grow to become cMOOCS ... They will do that over time” - Stephen Downes’s sketch from https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2012-09-26.0742.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350
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Prediction
it won’t be long before MOOCs become more mainstream for language learning
and teacher training
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What else do you want to know?
Almost 500 posts about MOOCs: http://www.downes.ca/mooc_posts.htm http://
advanceducation.blogspot.ae/2012/11/when-is-mooc-not-mooc-what-mooc-means.html #353 of 474 references)
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Where to find MOOCs?
http://www.openculture.com/free_certificate_courses
http://www.mooc-list.com/
Steve Hargadon’s Classroom 2.0 http://www.mooc.me/
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And of course …
All my slides are onlinehttp://slideshare.net/vances
A writeup of this presentation will appear in the next issue of http://tesl-ej.org/ , drafted here:
http://tinyurl.com/tacon2013vance