What is a MOOC?
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0:05 - 0:08The Massive Open Online Course is a response
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0:08 - 0:11to the challenges faced by organizations and distributed disciplines
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0:11 - 0:14at a time of information overload.
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0:14 - 0:17It used to be that when you want to know about something
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0:17 - 0:20You could ask someone, you could buy a book,
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0:20 - 0:24you could try to figure it out for yourself, or you could call a school.
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0:24 - 0:28If that school offered a course in the thing you are trying to figure out,
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0:28 - 0:30you could go there and take it.
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0:30 - 0:33You could get access to information about a topic:
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0:33 - 0:35an instructor had combed through journals and books
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0:35 - 0:38to pull the information together from a library.
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0:38 - 0:42You ight even find others who are also interested in the same things that you are.
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0:43 - 0:47The MOOC is built for a world where information is everywhere,
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0:47 - 0:50where a social network obsessed with the same thing that you are
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0:50 - 0:52is a click away, a digital world,
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0:52 - 0:54a world where Internet connection
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0:54 - 0:57gives you access to a staggering amount of information.
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0:58 - 1:01This video will introduce you to how a Massive Open Online Course
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1:01 - 1:04is one way of learning in a networked world.
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1:05 - 1:09A MOOC is a course. It is open. It is participatory.
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1:09 - 1:13It is distributed and it supports life-long networked learning.
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1:14 - 1:17In one sense a Massive Open Online Course is just that:
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1:17 - 1:20it is a course, it has facilitators and course materials,
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1:20 - 1:24it has a start and end date, it has participants.
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1:24 - 1:25But a MOOC is not school.
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1:26 - 1:28It is not just an online course.
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1:28 - 1:32It is a way to connect and collaborate while developing digital skills.
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1:32 - 1:37It is a way of engaging in the learning process that engages what it means to be a student.
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1:38 - 1:43It is, maybe most importantly, an event around which people who care about a topic
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1:43 - 1:47can get together and work and talk about it in a structured way.
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1:48 - 1:49The course is open.
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1:50 - 1:52All the work gets done in areas accessible
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1:52 - 1:54for people to read and reflect and comment on.
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1:55 - 1:59The course is open in a sense you can go ahead and take the course without paying for it.
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1:59 - 2:02You might pay to get the credit though an institution
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2:02 - 2:06but you are not paying for participating in the course.
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2:06 - 2:09It is also open, in the sense that the work done in the course
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2:09 - 2:12is shared between all the people taking it.
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2:12 - 2:15The material put together by the facilitators,
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2:15 - 2:18the work done by participants, it is all negotiated in the open.
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2:18 - 2:22You get to keep your work and everybody else gets to learn from it.
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2:23 - 2:25The course is participatory.
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2:25 - 2:29You really become part of the course by engaging with other people's work.
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2:29 - 2:32Participants are not asked to complete specific assignments,
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2:32 - 2:35but rather to engage with the material, with each other
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2:35 - 2:38and with other material they may find on the web.
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2:38 - 2:43You make connections between ideas and between you and the other people, you network.
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2:43 - 2:49One of the outcomes the people get from the course
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2:49 - 2:51are the network connections they build up through engaging with each other.
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2:51 - 2:57The course is distributed and all these blog posts and discussion posts, video responses, articles ,tweets , and tags
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2:57 - 3:01all knit together to create a networked course.
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3:01 - 3:04They're mostly not found in one central location but rather all
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3:04 - 3:07over the Internet in different pockets and clusters.
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3:07 - 3:12There is no right way to do the course. No single path from the first week to the last.
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3:12 - 3:15This allows for new ideas to develop and for different points of views
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3:15 - 3:20to co-exist. It also means that one of the side effects of MOOC
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3:20 - 3:25is the building of distributed knowledge base on the net.
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3:25 - 3:28The course is a step on the road to life long learning.
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3:28 - 3:31MOOCs promote independence among learners and encourages participants to work in their
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3:31 - 3:35own spaces and to create authentic networks that they can easily maintain after the course finishes. A MOOC can promote
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3:35 - 3:41the kind of network creation that life-long learning is all about.
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3:41 - 3:47The course part is just the beginning, and how can you go about finding one of these?
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3:47 - 3:51Well news that a MOOC will be offered usually spreads on online networks
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3:51 - 3:55People have reputation for interesting skills or innovative
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3:55 - 3:58thinking on a topic decide to collaborate by offering an open
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3:58 - 4:01online course covering that topic. Anyone who wants to join in
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4:01 - 4:05can. In a MOOC you can choose what you do,
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4:05 - 4:17how you participate, and only you can tell in the end, if you have been successful, just like real life.
- Title:
- What is a MOOC?
- Description:
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Written and Narrated by Dave Cormier
Video by Neal GillisResearchers:
Dave Cormier
Alexander McAuley
George Siemens
Bonnie StewartCreated 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"
CC-BY 2010
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- English
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