Thinking about MOOC Design

Getting Started

MOOCs are different

(Sort of familiar but also quite unusual)

Start simply

Clear, concise goal

Analyze environmental issues and disputes through a legal lens

Identify “Big Ideas”

Goal

BigIdea 1

BigIdea 2

BigIdea 3

Ask...

What specific understandings about

this big idea do students need to have?

1

What common misconceptions do

students tend to have related to this big idea?

2

What provocative questions will foster

inquiry, understanding & transfer of learning?

3

Create a new course map

Tree map

Course Goal (150 characters)

Big Idea 1

• What 1 or 2 things about Big Idea 1 do students need to understand?

✦ What stories can you tell to help students connect emotionally & intellectually to the big idea & detailed understanding?

• What common misconceptions do you expect for each understanding?

✦ How might you give students the opportunity to demonstrate and correct misconceptions?

• What provocative questions will help foster inquiry, understanding & transfer of learning?

Outline

Courtesy of Duke University: bit.ly/unitplanning

Table

Sketch

Concept map

Tell us stories!

Very hypothetical example

Find what works for you!(But is different than the method you normally use to organize your content.)

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order

to look at things in a different way.— Edward de Bono

CC-Licensed Image Credits

Slide 2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanschijndeljan/6892681295/, James Jordan

Slide 3: http://www.flickr.com/photos/69826987@N00/2226419650/, JanvanSchijndel