1 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In this video, I'm going to go through a conceptual model of cMOOCs, 2 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 based on my experience with a number of MOOCs, 3 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but particularly the Learning Creative Learning cMOOC 4 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that's currently running at Mitch Resnick's Lifelong Kindergarten Group 5 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 at the MIT Media Lab. 6 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So - so a couple of things, before I'm getting started here: 7 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is just an experiment, like LCL: I hope people take it. 8 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in the spirit I make it (?), which I'm just playing around with ideas. 9 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 As I get down into the model, the cubes you see represent the roles we play 10 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's important to remember that, that (inaudible} represent, 11 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 like the whole person just representing certain things that - certain roles that each of us take on. 12 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Reality is vastly more complex than the model I present here, 13 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so this is just a little attempt to just try to get an understanding of MOOCs 14 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 with a subset of the reality that is a cMOOC. 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This model - this conceptual model certainly derives from the work of George Siemens and Steven Downes 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 who were the people who made the first MOOC - or developped the idea of MOOCs 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and as you can see from the two tweets above, at the top of the screen, 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 George Siemens certainly is not opposed to the idea 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 of viewing the networks that are created in MOOCs as similar to networks of neurons 20 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and Stephen Downes has explicitly said that he was thinking of neural networks 21 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 when he was developing MOOCs. 22 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, with those caveats, let's get started. 23 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So this is an overview, in the background here, of MIT. 24 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That's right, Cambridge, from [inaudible] over here, 25 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and MIT is just under that - those white dots. 26 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, let's go and take a look. 27 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, here I have the artefacts that have been created by the MOOC, 28 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 some of them again, right, not all of them. 29 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Here I have sort of the cloud of us, of the participants in the MOOC, 30 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 again, representing our roles as MOOC participants, not of the entire IVAR (?) entity. 31 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And then down here these dots represent people at MIT. 32 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, this is the Media Lab, 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 this is Mitch Resnick's school, 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 here, these are other groups, other buildings at MIT 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and again, right, this is just a small set, subset of reality. 36 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There are literally, you know, hundreds of these groups at MIT, 37 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 thousands of students at MIT, it's just one university in dozens of universities in Boston and Cambridge. 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So Mitch Resnick's group, so LCL, and 39 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 -- let me just turn on something here for a second -- 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and, you know, the lines here represent, sort of, exchange of information between people. 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And obviously, Mitch is exchanging lots of information with his own team, as they are with him, 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and Mitch is also exchanging information with other groups at MIT, 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 people leading other groups at MIT, 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and, obviously, the administration at MIT. 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So there's work already to (?) LCL going on at this level, sort of you know, 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 making the course happen and providing the resources for it. 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm not going to focus too much on that, but just want to sort of start there. 48 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And I'm going to turn the [inaudible] off for a bit. 49 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So we all start off, as we begin the MOOC with this, with this sort of cloud of us -- 50 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we are obviously from all over the world, but through the internet, we sort of are connect-- 51 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 have gathered here over MIT and the Media Lab to be part of this MOOC, 52 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but at the start of the MOOC, we're very disconnected, right? 53 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it's just a bunch of us who've shown up for this experience. 54 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And, you know, we all go to the web site and we read about it, and we listen to Mitch, 55 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and we get a sense of what we're in for and we can connect to resources 56 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that Mitch's team (?) has put up to get it started. 57 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Again, at this point, there are very few connections between people. 58 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And, as we join the Google+ community, and start blogging about it and tweeting about it, 59 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we start making links between ourselves -- up here -- 60 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And then the course gets started. 61 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you know, I've represented that as this first lecture, a presentation that Mitch did, 62 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and it sends out a lot of information to all of us, right? 63 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to [inaudible] 64 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now obviously, his - Mitch and his team are also paying close attention 65 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to this stream of information coming out of ... first presentation. 66 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And, associated with the video presentation are readings for each of these ... of the weeks 67 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and - well I think that's all I wanted to say here. 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