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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.28,0:00:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this video, I'm going to go through a conceptual model of cMOOCs,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.60,0:00:14.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based on my experience with a number of MOOCs,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.15,0:00:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but particularly the Learning Creative Learning cMOOC
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.15,0:00:22.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's currently running at Mitch Resnick's Lifelong Kindergarten Group
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.83,0:00:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the MIT Media Lab.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.44,0:00:30.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So - so a couple of things, before I'm getting started here:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.43,0:00:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is just an experiment, like LCL: I hope people take it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.00,0:00:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the spirit I make it, which I'm just playing around with ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.04,0:00:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I get down into the model, the cubes you see represent the roles we play
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.10,0:00:48.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's important to remember that, that they represent
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.81,0:00:54.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the whole person just representing certain things that - certain roles that each of us take on.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.35,0:01:01.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reality is vastly more complex than the model I present here,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.03,0:01:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so this is just a little attempt to just try to get an understanding of MOOCs
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.08,0:01:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a subset of the reality that is a cMOOC.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.62,0:01:19.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This model - this conceptual model certainly derives
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.97,0:01:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the work of George Siemens and Steven Downes
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.22,0:01:31.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were the people who made the first MOOC - or developed the idea of MOOCs
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.53,0:01:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as you can see from the two tweets above, at the top of the screen,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.18,0:01:46.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,George Siemens certainly is not opposed to the idea
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.15,0:01:54.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of viewing the networks that are created in MOOCs as similar to networks of neurons
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.35,0:02:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Stephen Downes has explicitly said that he was thinking of neural networks
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.20,0:02:04.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when he was developing MOOCs.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.63,0:02:08.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, with those caveats, let's get started.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.81,0:02:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is an overview, in the background here, of MIT.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.80,0:02:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sorry, Cambridge from the left, Boston on the right, Charles River over here,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.96,0:02:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and MIT is just under that - those white dots.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.66,0:02:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, let's go and take a look.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.17,0:02:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, here I have the artifacts that have been created by the MOOC,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.54,0:02:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of them again, right, not all of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.74,0:02:39.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here I have sort of the cloud of us, of the participants in the MOOC,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.45,0:02:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,again, representing our roles as MOOC participants, not the entirety of our entity.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.10,0:02:59.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then down here these dots represent people at MIT.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.09,0:03:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this is the Media Lab,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.84,0:03:03.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is Mitch Resnick's group here,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.37,0:03:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these are other groups, other buildings at MIT
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.83,0:03:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and again, right, this is just a small set, subset of reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.89,0:03:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are literally, you know, hundreds of these groups at MIT,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.76,0:03:23.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thousands of students at MIT, it's just one university in dozens of universities in Boston and Cambridge.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.22,0:03:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Mitch and his group developed LCL, and
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.70,0:03:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- let me just turn on something here for a second --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.53,0:03:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the lines here represent exchange of information between people.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.84,0:03:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And obviously, Mitch is exchanging lots of information with his own team, as they are with him,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.92,0:04:04.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Mitch is also exchanging information with other groups at MIT,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.39,0:04:06.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people leading other groups at MIT,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.45,0:04:09.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, obviously, the administration at MIT.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.61,0:04:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's work related to LCL going on at this level, sort of you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.78,0:04:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making the course happen and providing the resources for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.98,0:04:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not going to focus too much on that, but just want to sort of start there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.92,0:04:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm going to turn the edges off for a bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.26,0:04:41.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we all start off, as we begin the MOOC with this, with this sort of cloud of us --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.46,0:04:48.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are obviously from all over the world, but through the internet, we sort of are connect--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.15,0:04:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have gathered here over MIT and the Media Lab to be part of this MOOC,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.08,0:04:58.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but at the start of the MOOC, we're very disconnected, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.25,0:05:01.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's just a bunch of us who've shown up for this experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.76,0:05:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, you know, we all go to the web site and we read about it, and we listen to Mitch,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.31,0:05:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we get a sense of what we're in for and we can connect to resources
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.92,0:05:21.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Mitch and his team have put up to get it started.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.20,0:05:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, at this point, there are very few connections between people.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.95,0:05:38.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, as we join the Google+ community, and start blogging about it and tweeting about it,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.18,0:05:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we start making links between ourselves -- up here --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.13,0:05:53.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the course gets started.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.58,0:05:58.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've represented that as this first lecture, a presentation that Mitch did,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.66,0:06:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it sends out a lot of information to all of us, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.87,0:06:09.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to all participating in the group.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.39,0:06:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now obviously, his - Mitch and his team are also paying close attention
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.52,0:06:20.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this stream of information coming out of that first presentation.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.90,0:06:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, associated with the video presentation are readings for each of these...for each of the weeks
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.30,0:06:43.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and - well I think that's all I wanted to say here.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.67,0:06:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And immediately after, or even before, that first presentation
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.48,0:06:55.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people were starting to tweet, were starting to add to the ...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.58,0:07:08.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... the main Google+ group and were also starting
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.93,0:07:12.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get to know the people in our own little groups
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.80,0:07:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and posting there, and some of us are
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.64,0:07:21.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starting to blog about LCL.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.66,0:07:28.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? Lots of us writing blogs,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.18,0:07:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or some of us writing blogs, so there's
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.66,0:07:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this information that starts really flowing rapidly.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.01,0:07:40.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, as we do that we start to form connections here.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.87,0:07:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if I did this again I would have these connections
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.10,0:07:48.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gradually thicken and intensify, but I was working out
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.55,0:07:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these ideas as I made the model, so we have
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.96,0:07:59.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fully networked collection of us here.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.46,0:08:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, through these colored lines I'm just
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.74,0:08:07.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,representing the information that we're exchanging
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.81,0:08:10.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,via the Google+ group, on Twitter,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.83,0:08:13.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,via the blogs, and ...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.76,0:08:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was after the first week.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.84,0:08:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second week, we get the lecture from the...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.46,0:08:26.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the presentation [mumbles],
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.11,0:08:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're assigned to talk about a gear,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.37,0:08:38.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learning gear from our childhood based on Papert's (?) writings.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.74,0:08:41.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we start posting, sharing information
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.47,0:08:45.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on our small LCL groups, and some of us
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.43,0:08:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the big LCL group.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.59,0:08:51.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And again, blogging about it and sharing the information in other ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.88,0:08:59.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is communication going between
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.83,0:09:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mitch and the other LCL group moderators,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.10,0:09:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between all of us here in the network cloud.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.07,0:09:22.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's this flow of information from
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.22,0:09:25.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first Mitch and his team put it up here,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.53,0:09:27.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it comes out to us,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.75,0:09:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we comment upon it, and sometimes directly talk
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.84,0:09:34.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Mitch and his team.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.23,0:09:37.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And mostly we're sending information out here
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.39,0:09:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to these streams, and sharing that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.07,0:09:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which, of course, Mitch and his team are watching
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.50,0:09:51.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what appears out in these various streams.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.57,0:09:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a lot of information flowing around.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.33,0:09:57.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, the third week was ...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.15,0:10:07.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Dale Dowerdy (?), and Buckly (?),
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.35,0:10:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we were supposed to create scratch projects
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.31,0:10:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which many of us did.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.01,0:10:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We shared those and learned from eachother.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.56,0:10:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the density of our network is increasing up here.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.08,0:10:27.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the fourth week, it was the
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.35,0:10:31.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,infamous Alan Kay-dominated lecture.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.97,0:10:36.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That certainly generated a lot of,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.94,0:10:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of feedback.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.80,0:10:43.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mostly, at least most of what I saw,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.99,0:10:45.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was on the LCL main group.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.32,0:10:51.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our assignment was to work with
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.29,0:10:55.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the drawing program...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.95,0:10:59.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,<chuckles> whose name is escaping me right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.13,0:11:01.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh...anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.62,0:11:07.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously dozens and dozens,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.11,0:11:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if not hundreds of these programs were created,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.36,0:11:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've just shown two here.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.71,0:11:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, the last week's lecture on
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.26,0:11:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,open learning, again generating more artifacts,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.84,0:11:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stream of more artifacts,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.92,0:11:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of us working with the stack exchange
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.44,0:11:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some of us offering courses and hangouts, et cetera.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.16,0:11:40.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And again there were lots more than
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.91,0:11:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm showing here.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.68,0:11:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as the course continues we will be
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.36,0:11:48.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,producing more artifacts.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.76,0:11:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as I've said before,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.36,0:12:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mitch and his team are watching all of this happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.33,0:12:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're probably not looking at
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.77,0:12:09.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every single scratch project put up on
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.41,0:12:13.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the scratch website, or every single
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.27,0:12:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sub-group on Google+, but they're
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.64,0:12:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,keeping an eye on things and sortof
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.12,0:12:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to understand how this is all developing.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.45,0:12:28.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, that gets fed back to us,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.14,0:12:33.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the form of, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.73,0:12:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,upcoming lectures where they share what they've seen.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.33,0:12:44.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the chat, which is becoming a part
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.59,0:12:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of each presentation, and just direct communication
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.64,0:12:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back and forth with us, all of us or some of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.77,0:12:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we have this, we have this
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.07,0:13:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,network that we've built very quickly,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.38,0:13:13.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is <clears throat> doing something, maybe.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.14,0:13:17.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exactly what is not clear to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.17,0:13:19.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since we're certainly producing a lot of information.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.84,0:13:24.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess the question I have is,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.21,0:13:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what are the potentials here?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.98,0:13:29.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What emergent properties might this have, I don't know,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.78,0:13:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in a sense there are interesting possibilities.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.03,0:13:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think, we know that most of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.68,0:13:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to be living in cities within
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.64,0:13:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a hundred years, and cities are...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.61,0:13:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're going to have to get a lot smarter
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.96,0:13:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about how we run our cities.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.86,0:14:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's in fact a whole movement with the
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.68,0:14:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,urban studies community called
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.56,0:14:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Smarter Cities" ...
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.57,0:14:10.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think part of the emergent properties
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.37,0:14:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are possible with cMOOCs
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.26,0:14:17.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is we're sort of training a lot of us
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.77,0:14:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to work in these networks
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.46,0:14:23.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can be developed very quickly
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.91,0:14:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the current tools of the internet,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.36,0:14:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I assume will become even easier
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.40,0:14:30.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to build in the future,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.86,0:14:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so the cMOOC experience is, in a way,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.11,0:14:39.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of training us to be better at
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.26,0:14:44.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,running our communities in the future,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.21,0:14:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making our communities much smarter.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.69,0:14:49.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's, that's where I am with this.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.15,0:14:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would love feedback.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.56,0:14:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will post the model online,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.81,0:14:54.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that anybody who wants it can download it.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.82,0:14:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, again, this is just very experimental.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.20,0:15:01.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just playing around with ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.34,0:15:02.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So. Thanks!
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.83,0:15:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thanks for watching.