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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.76,0:00:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Massive Open Online Course is a response
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.68,0:00:11.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the challenges faced by organizations and distributed disciplines
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.33,0:00:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a time of information overload.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.38,0:00:16.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It used to be that when you want to know about something
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.69,0:00:19.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could ask someone, you could buy a book,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.15,0:00:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could try to figure it out for yourself, or you could call a school.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.92,0:00:27.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If that school offered a course in the thing you are trying to figure out,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.73,0:00:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could go there and take it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.56,0:00:32.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could get access to information about a topic:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.75,0:00:35.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an instructor had combed through journals and books
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.37,0:00:37.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to pull the information together from a library.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.16,0:00:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You ight even find others who are also interested in the same things that you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.74,0:00:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The MOOC is built for a world where information is everywhere,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.74,0:00:49.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where a social network obsessed with the same thing that you are
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.67,0:00:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a click away, a digital world,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.07,0:00:54.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a world where Internet connection
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.24,0:00:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gives you access to a staggering amount of information.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.100,0:01:01.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This video will introduce you to how a Massive Open Online Course
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.49,0:01:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is one way of learning in a networked world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.08,0:01:08.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A MOOC is a course. It is open. It is participatory.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.76,0:01:13.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is distributed and it supports life-long networked learning.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.77,0:01:16.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In one sense a Massive Open Online Course is just that:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.97,0:01:20.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is a course, it has facilitators and course materials,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.43,0:01:23.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it has a start and end date, it has participants.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.59,0:01:25.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But a MOOC is not school.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.82,0:01:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not just an online course.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.36,0:01:32.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a way to connect and collaborate while developing digital skills.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.13,0:01:37.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a way of engaging in the learning process that engages what it means to be a student.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.13,0:01:43.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is, maybe most importantly, an event around which people who care about a topic
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.39,0:01:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can get together and work and talk about it in a structured way.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.78,0:01:49.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The course is open.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.53,0:01:51.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the work gets done in areas accessible
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.75,0:01:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for people to read and reflect and comment on.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.05,0:01:58.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The course is open in a sense you can go ahead and take the course without paying for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.42,0:02:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You might pay to get the credit though an institution
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.36,0:02:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you are not paying for participating in the course.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.15,0:02:09.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is also open, in the sense that the work done in the course
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.39,0:02:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is shared between all the people taking it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.70,0:02:14.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The material put together by the facilitators,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.57,0:02:18.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the work done by participants, it is all negotiated in the open.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.31,0:02:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You get to keep your work and everybody else gets to learn from it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.09,0:02:24.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The course is participatory.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.98,0:02:29.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You really become part of the course by engaging with other people's work.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.18,0:02:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Participants are not asked to complete specific assignments,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.22,0:02:35.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but rather to engage with the material, with each other
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.35,0:02:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with other material they may find on the web.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.50,0:02:40.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You make connections between ideas
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.61,0:02:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and between you and the other people, you network.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.03,0:02:45.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the outcomes that people get from the course
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.79,0:02:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the network connections they build up through engaging with each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.82,0:02:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The course is distributed and all these blog posts and discussion posts,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.83,0:02:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,video responses, articles, tweets and tags
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.36,0:02:59.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all knit together to create a networked course.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.33,0:03:02.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're mostly not found in one central location
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.31,0:03:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but rather all over the Internet in different pockets and clusters.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.49,0:03:08.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no right way to do the course,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.77,0:03:11.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no single path from the first week to the last.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.55,0:03:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This allows for new ideas to develop
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.74,0:03:15.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for different points of views to co-exist.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.54,0:03:19.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It also means that one of the side effects of a MOOC
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.43,0:03:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the building of distributed knowledge base on the Net.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.11,0:03:26.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The course is a step on the road to life-long learning.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.87,0:03:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MOOCs promote independence among learners
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.94,0:03:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and encourages participants to work in their own spaces
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.65,0:03:36.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to create authentic networks that they can easily maintain after the course finishes.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.72,0:03:40.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A MOOC can promote the kind of network creation that life-long learning is all about.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.96,0:03:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The course part is just the beginning, and how can you go about finding one of these?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.08,0:03:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well news that a MOOC will be offered usually spreads on online networks
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.03,0:03:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who have reputationa for interesting skills
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.73,0:03:54.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or innovative thinking on a topic
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.39,0:03:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decide to collaborate by offering an open online course covering their topic.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.07,0:04:01.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyone who wants to join in can.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.97,0:04:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a MOOC you can choose what you do, how you participate,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.08,0:04:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and only you can tell in the end, if you have been successful, just like real life.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.98,0:04:16.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(written and narrated by Dave Cormier\Nvideo by Neal Gillis)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.97,0:04:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(researchers Daver Cormier Alexander McAuley George Siemens Bonnie Stewart)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.74,0:04:22.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Created through funding received by the University of Prince Edward Island through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's 'Knowledge Synthesis Grants on the Digital Economy')
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.81,0:04:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(2010 Creative Commons BY license)