{"id":3385,"date":"2016-05-25T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2016-05-25T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:30:10","slug":"a-review-of-todays-mooc-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2016\/05\/25\/a-review-of-todays-mooc-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"A review of today&#8217;s MOOC workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon we held the MOOC workshop with Blackboard&#8217;s Anne Cross and Ashley Wright.<\/p>\n<p>According to Russell et at (2013), MOOCs are changing education.\u00a0 For example MIT\u2019s computing courses can attract over 100,000 students (Chandler 2014).\u00a0 MOOCs demonstrate one way of opening up education to a much wider, global audience, many of whom would otherwise have little or no access to education (with all the negative effects this has).\u00a0 While it is technically possible to provide a wide range of online content, those who use MOOCs are struggling with assessment.\u00a0 As it is impossible to employ the same proportion of staff for MOOCs as would be needed for a campus-based course, solutions are being sought from technology.\u00a0 Videos that prompt for input at regular intervals and which do not progress until a correct answer has been submitted provide a partial solution, for example Stanford University\u2019s Coursera programmes (Koller 2012).\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how MOOCs can be used in BU.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop was divided into two sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The first session contains an <a href=\"https:\/\/itx-sms-api.bbcollab.com\/media\/stream?client_id=SAS&amp;original_media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com%2Fitx-sas-eu-original%2Flogingroup%2F1128%2Fsession%2F16723%2Froom%2F2136473%2Frecording%2Froom_4febd4f0725542c19d72ff511a7f131b-8cf57f51_20160525T114932_FINAL.mp4&amp;media_display_name=David%27s%2520room%2520-%2520recording_1&amp;token_type=SMS_CLIENT&amp;token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJleHAiOjE0OTU3MjgwOTAsInRva2VuVHlwZSI6IlNNU19DTElFTlQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbE1lZGlhVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1ldS13ZXN0LTEuYW1hem9uYXdzLmNvbS9pdHgtc2FzLWV1LW9yaWdpbmFsL2xvZ2luZ3JvdXAvMTEyOC9zZXNzaW9uLzE2NzIzL3Jvb20vMjEzNjQ3My9yZWNvcmRpbmcvcm9vbV80ZmViZDRmMDcyNTU0MmMxOWQ3MmZmNTExYTdmMTMxYi04Y2Y1N2Y1MV8yMDE2MDUyNVQxMTQ5MzJfRklOQUwubXA0IiwiY2xpZW50SWQiOiJTQVMiLCJtZWRpYURpc3BsYXlOYW1lIjoiRGF2aWQncyByb29tIC0gcmVjb3JkaW5nXzEifQ.2cp3ALPfxhmy44kJy9K_zJ5nSJ29MTpge7wCPcqPqlE\">introduction to MOOCs<\/a>.\u00a0 I suggest viewing this video for the two segments from 10:25 &#8211; 18:20 and 35:17 &#8211; 41.35.<\/p>\n<p>In the second part of the session, we watched this video about the experience of Charles Darwin University in Northern Territories who implemented its first MOOC in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bMalzcQE5o8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/itx-sms-api.bbcollab.com\/media\/stream?client_id=SAS&amp;original_media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com%2Fitx-sas-eu-original%2Flogingroup%2F1128%2Fsession%2F16723%2Froom%2F2136473%2Frecording%2Froom_4febd4f0725542c19d72ff511a7f131b-8cf57f51_20160525T124535_FINAL.mp4&amp;media_display_name=David%27s%2520room%2520-%2520recording_2&amp;token_type=SMS_CLIENT&amp;token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJleHAiOjE0OTU3MjgxMDQsInRva2VuVHlwZSI6IlNNU19DTElFTlQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbE1lZGlhVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1ldS13ZXN0LTEuYW1hem9uYXdzLmNvbS9pdHgtc2FzLWV1LW9yaWdpbmFsL2xvZ2luZ3JvdXAvMTEyOC9zZXNzaW9uLzE2NzIzL3Jvb20vMjEzNjQ3My9yZWNvcmRpbmcvcm9vbV80ZmViZDRmMDcyNTU0MmMxOWQ3MmZmNTExYTdmMTMxYi04Y2Y1N2Y1MV8yMDE2MDUyNVQxMjQ1MzVfRklOQUwubXA0IiwiY2xpZW50SWQiOiJTQVMiLCJtZWRpYURpc3BsYXlOYW1lIjoiRGF2aWQncyByb29tIC0gcmVjb3JkaW5nXzIifQ.RxiMmeznDaEoLbIj8OJYdGmmHMgjnGQfLACIhrpFKFk\">recording from the second session<\/a> picks up at 12:46 with a review of the 7 key points from the video.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time as the workshop was being recorded in the room, we also hosted three people who joined the session from the desks.\u00a0 We did have some initial problems with adjusting the sound so that the audio was clear for the virtual attendees.\u00a0 There were two presenters in the room so placing the microphone proved problematic.\u00a0\u00a0 Had the virtual attendees had a microphone themselves, they would have been able to speak during the workshop.\u00a0 Instead, they used a chat window and typed comments that could be read and responded to during the workshop.<\/p>\n<p>It was a very interesting session, a trial of the Collaborate application and a great introduction to MOOCs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon we held the MOOC workshop with Blackboard&#8217;s Anne Cross and Ashley Wright. 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