02 - MOOC acronym [Massive Teaching]
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0:00 - 0:01MOOC.
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0:01 - 0:02Well, what's that?
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0:03 - 0:04The word MOOC is an acronym.
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0:05 - 0:10I should at least say once what it stands
for: Massive Online Open Course. -
0:11 - 0:13That was the easy part, just to give you
those words. -
0:14 - 0:17Now to give a definition, that's going to
be very challenging. -
0:18 - 0:20For every one of those words, I think it's
fair -
0:21 - 0:23to say that there is a generally accepted
understanding of what -
0:23 - 0:26the word means, but then there is a
substantial number of -
0:26 - 0:29people who challenge that understanding,
who try to push it further. -
0:30 - 0:33For instance, massive, you can't give a
number there because -
0:34 - 0:36a thousand students is already a large
class for an instructor. -
0:37 - 0:40But it's ridiculously small compared to some
of the MOOCs -
0:40 - 0:42which have managed to attract hundreds of
thousands of students. -
0:44 - 0:45Online should be clear.
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0:46 - 0:49It means people do activities online such
as watching -
0:49 - 0:52videos, reading texts, answering quizzes,
or talking on forums. -
0:53 - 0:55That's what most people accept but it
ignores that -
0:56 - 0:58some professors have tried to preach to
the physical world. -
0:59 - 1:04For instance, by meeting their
students, or organizing Meet Ups in -
1:04 - 1:09different cities, or by assigning
real-life physical lab work to do at home. -
1:11 - 1:13The course part should also be clear.
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1:14 - 1:18The beast must have pedagogical goals and
a structure that matches those goals. -
1:19 - 1:23That means they should be more like a tutorial
than a reference manual or an encyclopedia. -
1:24 - 1:27But then, some people throw in other
concepts with the word, course. -
1:29 - 1:30Maybe you should get a degree at the end.
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1:31 - 1:32Maybe you should have a class and teach a
bunch of -
1:33 - 1:36students at once, so, a big group of
students that you teach. -
1:38 - 1:40Finally, the word open is more
controversial. -
1:42 - 1:44In MOOCs, it's open because students
should -
1:44 - 1:45be allowed to take the class for free.
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1:46 - 1:48They should have access to the content for
free. -
1:49 - 1:52They can have to pay for some extra
services, such as a certificate. -
1:53 - 1:56But really in the end, access to content
is free for the learner. -
1:58 - 2:01The problem here is that it's a very
different usage -
2:01 - 2:04of the word open from the usage
popularized in the past. -
2:06 - 2:09For instance, before there existed open
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2:09 - 2:13educational resources or open courseware,
that -
2:13 - 2:16still exists but it used the word open in
a different way. -
2:17 - 2:22Open educational resources are teaching
material with a very permissive license, -
2:23 - 2:27and is available for any teacher to use
and reuse in their own class. -
2:28 - 2:31It's sort of encouraging recycling if you
want. -
2:33 - 2:35Open CourseWare is one of MIT's
initiatives in -
2:35 - 2:38this direction, offering MIT classes for
anyone to reuse. -
2:40 - 2:44If you want, they' are like open educational resources already structured in a course format.
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2:46 - 2:51Ultimately with MOOC, or with Massive
Online Open Course, you get four -
2:51 - 2:53words, four different flavors, and
everyone -
2:53 - 2:56in every course combines these flavors
differently. -
2:57 - 2:58That's the way I see it, at least.
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2:59 - 3:00The most important aspect of the MOOC
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3:00 - 3:03revolution in education is that new
technology -
3:04 - 3:06to support each of those flavors is
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3:06 - 3:09being actively developed and integrated
into one framework. -
3:11 - 3:14Then educators can tweak each, innovate,
and -
3:14 - 3:15repurpose the technology for their own
means. -
3:18 - 3:19For instance, I've heard of very
successful, -
3:19 - 3:22small, private, online courses using
M.O.O.C. platforms. -
3:23 - 3:24And many universities have started to use
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3:25 - 3:28these platforms to support their own
residential teaching. -
3:29 - 3:31That's what's exciting about MOOCs: a lot
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3:31 - 3:34of new technology aimed at improving
education.
- Title:
- 02 - MOOC acronym [Massive Teaching]
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From Teaching goes massive: new skills required
by Paul-Olivier Dehaye
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