0:00:01.279,0:00:08.605 In this video, I'm going to go through a conceptual model of cMOOCs, 0:00:08.605,0:00:14.150 based on my experience with a number of MOOCs, 0:00:14.150,0:00:17.149 but particularly the Learning Creative Learning cMOOC 0:00:17.149,0:00:22.830 that's currently running at Mitch Resnick's Lifelong Kindergarten Group 0:00:22.830,0:00:25.361 at the MIT Media Lab. 0:00:26.437,0:00:30.433 So - so a couple of things, before I'm getting started here: 0:00:30.433,0:00:37.000 This is just an experiment, like LCL: I hope people take it. 0:00:37.000,0:00:41.045 in the spirit I make it, which I'm just playing around with ideas. 0:00:41.045,0:00:47.104 As I get down into the model, the cubes you see represent the roles we play 0:00:47.104,0:00:48.810 It's important to remember that, that they represent 0:00:48.810,0:00:54.252 like the whole person just representing certain things that - certain roles that each of us take on. 0:00:57.346,0:01:01.027 Reality is vastly more complex than the model I present here, 0:01:01.027,0:01:10.085 so this is just a little attempt to just try to get an understanding of MOOCs 0:01:10.085,0:01:15.178 with a subset of the reality that is a cMOOC. 0:01:16.619,0:01:19.972 This model - this conceptual model certainly derives 0:01:19.972,0:01:23.890 the work of George Siemens and Steven Downes 0:01:24.220,0:01:31.530 who were the people who made the first MOOC - or developed the idea of MOOCs 0:01:31.530,0:01:40.403 and as you can see from the two tweets above, at the top of the screen, 0:01:43.183,0:01:46.731 George Siemens certainly is not opposed to the idea 0:01:48.151,0:01:54.347 of viewing the networks that are created in MOOCs as similar to networks of neurons 0:01:54.347,0:02:02.203 and Stephen Downes has explicitly said that he was thinking of neural networks 0:02:02.203,0:02:04.630 when he was developing MOOCs. 0:02:04.630,0:02:08.912 So, with those caveats, let's get started. 0:02:09.807,0:02:13.797 So this is an overview, in the background here, of MIT. 0:02:13.797,0:02:19.959 Sorry, Cambridge from the left, Boston on the right, Charles River over here, 0:02:19.959,0:02:23.664 and MIT is just under that - those white dots. 0:02:23.664,0:02:25.638 So, let's go and take a look. 0:02:28.168,0:02:32.328 So, here I have the artifacts that have been created by the MOOC, 0:02:32.545,0:02:34.738 some of them again, right, not all of them. 0:02:34.738,0:02:39.447 Here I have sort of the cloud of us, of the participants in the MOOC, 0:02:39.447,0:02:48.274 again, representing our roles as MOOC participants, not the entirety of our entity. 0:02:50.101,0:02:59.092 And then down here these dots represent people at MIT. 0:02:59.092,0:03:00.843 So, this is the Media Lab, 0:03:00.843,0:03:03.373 this is Mitch Resnick's group here, 0:03:03.373,0:03:05.826 these are other groups, other buildings at MIT 0:03:05.826,0:03:10.894 and again, right, this is just a small set, subset of reality. 0:03:10.894,0:03:14.761 There are literally, you know, hundreds of these groups at MIT, 0:03:14.761,0:03:23.832 thousands of students at MIT, it's just one university in dozens of universities in Boston and Cambridge. 0:03:28.223,0:03:34.142 So Mitch and his group developed LCL, and 0:03:34.702,0:03:38.592 -- let me just turn on something here for a second -- 0:03:40.534,0:03:48.839 and the lines here represent exchange of information between people. 0:03:48.839,0:03:57.918 And obviously, Mitch is exchanging lots of information with his own team, as they are with him, 0:03:57.918,0:04:04.391 and Mitch is also exchanging information with other groups at MIT, 0:04:04.391,0:04:06.447 people leading other groups at MIT, 0:04:06.447,0:04:09.207 and, obviously, the administration at MIT. 0:04:13.607,0:04:18.780 So there's work related to LCL going on at this level, sort of you know, 0:04:18.780,0:04:22.975 making the course happen and providing the resources for it. 0:04:22.975,0:04:27.203 I'm not going to focus too much on that, but just want to sort of start there. 0:04:30.921,0:04:34.261 And I'm going to turn the edges off for a bit. 0:04:34.261,0:04:41.211 So we all start off, as we begin the MOOC with this, with this sort of cloud of us -- 0:04:42.455,0:04:48.151 we are obviously from all over the world, but through the internet, we sort of are connect-- 0:04:48.151,0:04:54.078 have gathered here over MIT and the Media Lab to be part of this MOOC, 0:04:54.078,0:04:58.254 but at the start of the MOOC, we're very disconnected, right? 0:04:58.254,0:05:01.938 it's just a bunch of us who've shown up for this experience. 0:05:06.757,0:05:12.311 And, you know, we all go to the web site and we read about it, and we listen to Mitch, 0:05:12.311,0:05:16.922 and we get a sense of what we're in for and we can connect to resources 0:05:16.922,0:05:21.486 that Mitch and his team have put up to get it started. 0:05:22.203,0:05:25.923 Again, at this point, there are very few connections between people. 0:05:29.953,0:05:38.176 And, as we join the Google+ community, and start blogging about it and tweeting about it, 0:05:38.176,0:05:48.158 we start making links between ourselves -- up here -- 0:05:49.130,0:05:53.318 And then the course gets started. 0:05:53.577,0:05:58.949 I've represented that as this first lecture, a presentation that Mitch did, 0:06:01.659,0:06:07.867 and it sends out a lot of information to all of us, right? 0:06:07.867,0:06:09.386 to all participating in the group. 0:06:09.386,0:06:13.523 Now obviously, his - Mitch and his team are also paying close attention 0:06:13.523,0:06:20.911 to this stream of information coming out of that first presentation. 0:06:27.896,0:06:35.445 And, associated with the video presentation are readings for each of these...for each of the weeks 0:06:39.305,0:06:43.093 and - well I think that's all I wanted to say here. 0:06:46.668,0:06:52.478 And immediately after, or even before, that first presentation 0:06:52.478,0:06:55.806 people were starting to tweet, were starting to add to the ... 0:07:03.583,0:07:08.932 ... the main Google+ group and were also starting 0:07:08.932,0:07:12.787 to get to know the people in our own little groups 0:07:12.797,0:07:16.637 and posting there, and some of us are 0:07:16.637,0:07:21.832 starting to blog about LCL. 0:07:25.661,0:07:28.177 Right? Lots of us writing blogs, 0:07:28.177,0:07:29.661 or some of us writing blogs, so there's 0:07:29.661,0:07:33.017 this information that starts really flowing rapidly. 0:07:35.012,0:07:40.274 And, as we do that we start to form connections here. 0:07:41.870,0:07:44.096 And if I did this again I would have these connections 0:07:44.096,0:07:48.551 gradually thicken and intensify, but I was working out 0:07:48.551,0:07:51.964 these ideas as I made the model, so we have 0:07:51.964,0:07:59.293 the fully networked collection of us here. 0:08:02.459,0:08:04.745 And, through these colored lines I'm just 0:08:04.745,0:08:07.808 representing the information that we're exchanging 0:08:07.808,0:08:10.826 via the Google+ group, on Twitter, 0:08:10.826,0:08:13.846 via the blogs, and ... 0:08:16.763,0:08:19.839 and that was after the first week. 0:08:19.839,0:08:23.076 The second week, we get the lecture from the... 0:08:24.464,0:08:26.754 the presentation [mumbles], 0:08:27.109,0:08:33.366 and we're assigned to talk about a gear, 0:08:33.366,0:08:38.740 learning gear from our childhood based on Papert's (?) writings. 0:08:38.740,0:08:41.469 And we start posting, sharing information 0:08:41.469,0:08:45.426 on our small LCL groups, and some of us 0:08:45.426,0:08:46.975 on the big LCL group. 0:08:47.594,0:08:51.050 And again, blogging about it and sharing the information in other ways. 0:08:54.880,0:08:59.832 There is communication going between 0:08:59.832,0:09:06.082 Mitch and the other LCL group moderators, 0:09:07.104,0:09:10.322 between all of us here in the network cloud. 0:09:14.070,0:09:22.216 So there's this flow of information from 0:09:22.216,0:09:25.529 first Mitch and his team put it up here, 0:09:25.529,0:09:27.746 and it comes out to us, 0:09:27.746,0:09:31.836 we comment upon it, and sometimes directly talk 0:09:31.836,0:09:34.340 with Mitch and his team. 0:09:35.233,0:09:37.389 And mostly we're sending information out here 0:09:37.389,0:09:45.437 to these streams, and sharing that way. 0:09:46.066,0:09:48.497 Which, of course, Mitch and his team are watching 0:09:48.497,0:09:51.745 what appears out in these various streams. 0:09:52.570,0:09:54.596 There's a lot of information flowing around. 0:09:55.333,0:09:57.990 And then, the third week was ... 0:10:02.146,0:10:07.348 the Dale Dowerdy (?), and Buckly (?), 0:10:07.348,0:10:12.309 and we were supposed to create scratch projects 0:10:12.309,0:10:14.010 which many of us did. 0:10:14.010,0:10:16.467 We shared those and learned from eachother. 0:10:18.556,0:10:22.090 And the density of our network is increasing up here. 0:10:23.077,0:10:27.352 And then the fourth week, it was the 0:10:27.352,0:10:31.760 infamous Alan Kay-dominated lecture. 0:10:33.970,0:10:36.375 That certainly generated a lot of, 0:10:37.942,0:10:40.382 a lot of feedback. 0:10:41.798,0:10:43.986 Mostly, at least most of what I saw, 0:10:43.986,0:10:45.609 was on the LCL main group. 0:10:49.319,0:10:51.454 Our assignment was to work with 0:10:54.294,0:10:55.951 the drawing program... 0:10:56.947,0:10:59.189 <chuckles> whose name is escaping me right now. 0:11:00.132,0:11:01.711 Oh...anyway. 0:11:03.624,0:11:07.110 Obviously dozens and dozens, 0:11:07.110,0:11:10.357 if not hundreds of these programs were created, 0:11:10.357,0:11:11.644 and I've just shown two here. 0:11:18.708,0:11:22.264 And then, the last week's lecture on 0:11:22.264,0:11:27.838 open learning, again generating more artifacts, 0:11:27.838,0:11:29.918 stream of more artifacts, 0:11:29.918,0:11:34.440 some of us working with the stack exchange 0:11:34.440,0:11:38.162 and some of us offering courses and hangouts, et cetera. 0:11:38.162,0:11:40.909 And again there were lots more than 0:11:40.909,0:11:42.683 I'm showing here. 0:11:42.683,0:11:46.360 And as the course continues we will be 0:11:46.360,0:11:48.509 producing more artifacts. 0:11:50.757,0:11:52.754 And as I've said before, 0:11:54.364,0:12:00.371 Mitch and his team are watching all of this happen. 0:12:03.334,0:12:04.770 They're probably not looking at 0:12:04.770,0:12:09.412 every single scratch project put up on 0:12:09.412,0:12:13.270 the scratch website, or every single 0:12:13.270,0:12:16.644 sub-group on Google+, but they're 0:12:16.644,0:12:19.121 keeping an eye on things and sortof 0:12:19.121,0:12:22.835 trying to understand how this is all developing. 0:12:25.452,0:12:28.138 And of course, that gets fed back to us, 0:12:28.138,0:12:33.729 in the form of, you know, 0:12:33.729,0:12:38.334 upcoming lectures where they share what they've seen. 0:12:38.334,0:12:44.587 And the chat, which is becoming a part 0:12:44.587,0:12:48.824 of each presentation, and just direct communication 0:12:50.644,0:12:53.975 back and forth with us, all of us or some of us. 0:12:56.772,0:12:59.069 And so we have this, we have this 0:12:59.069,0:13:02.704 network that we've built very quickly, 0:13:04.384,0:13:13.830 which is <clears throat> doing something, maybe. 0:13:15.144,0:13:17.172 Exactly what is not clear to me, 0:13:17.172,0:13:19.855 since we're certainly producing a lot of information. 0:13:21.836,0:13:24.207 I guess the question I have is, 0:13:24.207,0:13:26.985 what are the potentials here? 0:13:26.985,0:13:29.776 What emergent properties might this have, I don't know, 0:13:29.776,0:13:33.965 but in a sense there are interesting possibilities. 0:13:40.034,0:13:43.677 I think, we know that most of the world 0:13:43.677,0:13:45.638 is going to be living in cities within 0:13:45.638,0:13:49.237 a hundred years, and cities are... 0:13:50.609,0:13:52.955 we're going to have to get a lot smarter 0:13:52.955,0:13:57.048 about how we run our cities. 0:13:59.865,0:14:01.681 There's in fact a whole movement with the 0:14:01.681,0:14:03.563 urban studies community called 0:14:03.563,0:14:05.201 "Smarter Cities" ... 0:14:06.568,0:14:10.373 and I think part of the emergent properties 0:14:10.373,0:14:13.197 that are possible with cMOOCs 0:14:14.259,0:14:17.767 is we're sort of training a lot of us 0:14:17.767,0:14:20.236 to work in these networks 0:14:21.456,0:14:23.907 that can be developed very quickly 0:14:23.907,0:14:26.355 with the current tools of the internet, 0:14:26.355,0:14:28.397 which I assume will become even easier 0:14:28.397,0:14:30.055 to build in the future, 0:14:30.865,0:14:35.105 and so the cMOOC experience is, in a way, 0:14:35.114,0:14:39.264 sort of training us to be better at 0:14:39.264,0:14:44.211 running our communities in the future, 0:14:44.211,0:14:45.975 making our communities much smarter. 0:14:46.693,0:14:49.150 So that's, that's where I am with this. 0:14:49.150,0:14:50.560 I would love feedback. 0:14:50.560,0:14:52.813 I will post the model online, 0:14:52.813,0:14:54.816 so that anybody who wants it can download it. 0:14:54.816,0:14:59.203 And, again, this is just very experimental. 0:14:59.203,0:15:01.345 Just playing around with ideas. 0:15:01.345,0:15:02.834 So. Thanks! 0:15:02.834,0:15:04.838 Thanks for watching.