Play With Your MOOC One Open Tool,

3 Flavors of LearningSteve Carson - MIT OpenCourseWare

Natalie Rusk - MIT Media Lab S. Alexander Ruthmann - NYU Steinhardt

Vanessa Gennarelli - P2PU

Digital Media and Learning Conference March 6, 2014 Boston, MA

3 Different Flavors

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Gentle Introduction to Python: Steve Carson

Learning Creative Learning: Natalie Rusk

Play With Your Music: Alex Ruthman

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It’s Alive!

Steve Carson – stephen.e.carson@gmail.com

6 March 2014

A simple theory: We don’t need another platform.

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The MOOC Maker

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The MOOC MakerMOOC-E

Structured via e-mail list

Eight week course (w 1 break week)

No SME support—logistics only

Communication archived on WordPress

Three overlapping “sequences”

No teacher

No platform

No(t much) money

Provides a flexible framework for connecting projects

Leverages existing resources & investments

Provides learners with persistent access to resources

+’s

Lives at mercy of project production schedules

Student data is scattered

Certification wasn’t an option (at least not yet)

-’s

Seq 2: ~2,600 learners

Seq 1: ~ 5,700 learners

Seq 3: ~1,000 learners

E-Mails opened

Sequence 1 Survey

N = 83

Assuming a 5% response rate, 1660 “engaged learners” in week eight.

25% were finished, so around 415 complete, or ~7% of total enrollment.

But do we care…?

Sequence 1 Survey

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Sequence 1 Survey

Thoughts

Platforms are not necessary.

Learners do just fine moving across resources.

Maybe communities ought to be bigger than courses.

Thoughts

Openness remains important.

Learners now define success.

Maybe the problem with MOOCs will be they are too cheap to produce, not too expensive.

Thanks

http://mechanicalmooc.org http://mechanicalmooc.wordpress.com

Learning Creative Learning

An open online learning community

Open Invitation to Experiment

G+ Community > 10,000

450+ Small Groups

Adriano Parracciani

Global Participation

Shady Hill School

Local Gatherings

Weekly Seminar (live)

developed in-house / open source !

“Should call this a top moment in my life -- so many of us from all over the world here for learning!” !“I'll have to watch the video again. I was so intrigued by the backchannel I paid more attention to this conversation.”

Backchannel Chat

Photos: John Iglar

Local Activities

Sharing Childhood Stories

Jeff Rudell typewriter made in 2nd grade

Photos: John Iglar

Organizing Community Events

Open creative learning by Graciela Arizmendi

Tinkering lab in Rome by Adriano Parracciani & Maria Beatrice Rapacini

What Worked Well

Viewing as collaborative experiment

Featuring community contributions

Adding backchannel chat

Highlighting personal stories

Encouraging local activities

Challenges

Assigned groups not active

Connectivity with panelists

G+ lacks continuity

Changes for LCL 2

Live discussion + recorded clips

New tools: Unhangouts and Discourse

6 sessions è projects è exhibition

Encourage local groups

playwithyourmusic.org

PWYM Learner Engagement Model

http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2012/sonic-analysis-of-tightrope-by-janelle-monae/

http://www.nyu.edu/projects/ruthmann/PWYM/airtraffic/

Our Experiences…

☺ Affinity-based grouping ☹ Email glitch delayed start of course ☺ Course content and structure – Clara & Brad ☺ Google charts & spreadsheets ☺ Custom mixing tool & Soundation DAW ☺ Live interview & process videos ☹Attendance at live interviews (Saturday mornings) ☺ Peer feedback in Google+ community ☹Strict cohort & fixed week-to-week structure

Looking forward…

Redesign course to engage G+ community • Start course anytime • Flexible timeline for course • Multiple pathways within content • Seed affinity groups in G+

!Content partnerships with major artists

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Get started: github: p2pu/mechanical-mooc find out more: reports.p2pu.org

Vanessa Gennarelli Learning Lead, P2PU Master’s Candidate, Harvard University @mozzadrella

Digital Media and Learning Conference March 6, 2014 Boston, MA

Questions

Vanessa Gennarelli Learning Lead, P2PU Master’s Candidate, Harvard University @mozzadrella

Digital Media and Learning Conference March 6, 2014 Boston, MA

Steve Carson - @SteveECarson Natalie Rusk - @nrusk1

S. Alexander Ruthmann - @alexruthmann Vanessa Gennarelli - @mozzadrella

Slides: bit.ly/dmlmooc