The Course is Yours: Connecting Students and Teachers as Connectivist Learners with an Open Online Course

Challenges

We used & recommend: Weblogs & Twitter

+ Adobe Connect for Live-Events;

Further – learner-driven – channel: Facebook

students, researchers, trainers, librarians, writers, lectors, teachers, system administrators, draftsmen, interior designers, musicians unemployed

• 232 registered participants from Germany, Austria, and Swiss
• open infrastructure, communication, and content
• open learning objectives vs. (opened-up) examinations

end user tools

SOOC13 course blog

(Wordpress v3.5)

external news feeds

Flipcharts of the in class workshop in Chemnitz http://www.sooc13.de/programm/prasenzphase/

Michael Winkler (2013): SOOC13: Woher wir wissen, wie viel Ihr schreibt. Blogpost on MTRV. http://mtrv.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/sooc13-woher-wir-wissen-wie-viel-ihr-schreibt/ (29.06.2013)

Institutions – Assessments – Openness

educational sciences, economics, communication sciences, linguistics, information systems, human computer interaction, media and society, courses for higher education, ...

3 universities, 7 faculties, >8 degrees

Much coordination work with examination offices

• High diversity
• "Homework" for 1.5–4 CPs
• Rooms for preparatory workshops
• Vacancy for student assistants
• Technical Infrastructure
• ...

#SOOC13 Showcase

bills-monster-hunted von HikingArtist.com (CC-BY-NC-ND)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hikingartist/8287082967/ (28.06.2013)

Facilitators

• Theories and approaches
• Tools, Tools, Tools
• Personal, political and legal effects
• Learning 2.0 in institutions

Daniela Pscheida

Anja Lorenz

Nina Kahnwald

Andrea Lißner

Selina Hohenstatt

Marlen Dubrau

Michael Winkler

MOOCs in

Germany

Johannes Moskaliuk (2013): Massive Open Online Courses – ein relevanter Trend für Hochschulen? Presentation at DINI-Zukunftswerkstatt „Massive Open Online Courses – neuer Weg oder Seifenblase?“, URL: http://de.slideshare.net/moskaliuk/2013-dini-moskaliuk (28.05.2013)

The Course is Yours

Connecting Students and Teachers as Connectivist Learners with an Open Online Course

• 52% students, 26% university staff, 8% self-employed, 4% further education sector
• 1/3rd already used weblogs and microblogging actively
• only 4% used e-portfolio platforms

(n=99)

Some numbers...

David R. Tribble (2012): Hogwarts Castle at the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey* amusement ride in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter* at the Islands of Adventure* amusement theme park at Universal Orlando* in Orlando, Florida. URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universal-Islands-of-Adventure-Harry-Potter-Castle-9182.jpg (CC-BY-SA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)

Challenges for MOOCs in Formal Learning Institutions

Massive Open Online Courses

cMOOC

xMOOC

...eXtension

...connectivist

MOOC

(Harvard and MIT marked their courses with an x)

• no predefinded learning objective
• decentralized structure
• learning via forming networks

EdX: Harvard's New Domain by Delphine Rodrik and Kevin Sun, The Harvard Crimson, 40.10.2012. URL: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/10/4/edx-scrutiny-online-learning/

Is Connectivism a Learning Theory?

Know where

Know how

Know what

Network Theory

http://www.sooc13.de/2013/05/17/wochenzusammenfassung-experimentierfreude-und-ple-galerie/

http://sooc13.de