WEBVTT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In this video, I'm going to go through a conceptual model of cMOOCs, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 based on my experience with a number of MOOCs, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but particularly the Learning Creative Learning cMOOC 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that's currently running at Mitch Resnick's Lifelong Kindergarten Group 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 at the MIT Media Lab. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So - so a couple of things, before I'm getting started here: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is just an experiment, like LCL: I hope people take it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in the spirit I make it (?), which I'm just playing around with ideas. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As I get down into the model, the cubes you see represent the roles we play 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's important to remember that, that (inaudible} represent, 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. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Reality is vastly more complex than the model I present here, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so this is just a little attempt to just try to get an understanding of MOOCs 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with a subset of the reality that is a cMOOC. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This model - this conceptual model certainly derives from the work of George Siemens and Steven Downes 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 who were the people who made the first MOOC - or developped the idea of MOOCs 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and as you can see from the two tweets above, at the top of the screen, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 George Siemens certainly is not opposed to the idea 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of viewing the networks that are created in MOOCs as similar to networks of neurons 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and Stephen Downes has explicitly said that he was thinking of neural networks 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when he was developing MOOCs. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, with those caveats, let's get started. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So this is an overview, in the background here, of MIT. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's right, Cambridge, from [inaudible] over here, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and MIT is just under that - those white dots. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, let's go and take a look. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, here I have the artefacts that have been created by the MOOC, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 some of them again, right, not all of them. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Here I have sort of the cloud of us, of the participants in the MOOC, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 again, representing our roles as MOOC participants, not of the entire IVAR (?) entity. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And then down here these dots represent people at MIT. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, this is the Media Lab, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this is Mitch Resnick's school, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 here, these are other groups, other buildings at MIT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and again, right, this is just a small set, subset of reality. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There are literally, you know, hundreds of these groups at MIT, 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. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So Mitch Resnick's group, so LCL, and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 -- let me just turn on something here for a second -- 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and, you know, the lines here represent, sort of, exchange of information between people. 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, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and Mitch is also exchanging information with other groups at MIT, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 people leading other groups at MIT, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and, obviously, the administration at MIT. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So there's work already to (?) LCL going on at this level, sort of you know, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 making the course happen and providing the resources for it. 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. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I'm going to turn the [inaudible] off for a bit. 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 -- 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-- 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 have gathered here over MIT and the Media Lab to be part of this MOOC, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but at the start of the MOOC, we're very disconnected, right? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it's just a bunch of us who've shown up for this experience. 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, 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 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that Mitch's team (?) has put up to get it started. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Again, at this point, there are very few connections between people. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And, as we join the Google+ community, and start blogging about it and tweeting about it, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we start making links between ourselves -- up here -- 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And then the course gets started. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you know, I've represented that as this first lecture, a presentation that Mitch did, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and it sends out a lot of information to all of us, right? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to [inaudible] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now obviously, his - Mitch and his team are also paying close attention 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to this stream of information coming out of ... first presentation. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And, associated with the video presentation are readings for each of these ... of the weeks 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and - well I think that's all I wanted to say here. 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