{"id":4948,"date":"2016-03-14T10:44:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T14:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2016-03-14T11:18:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:18:59","slug":"my-mooc-approach-pedagogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2016\/03\/my-mooc-approach-pedagogy\/","title":{"rendered":"My MOOC Approach \/ Pedagogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently asked to come up with an outline of how I think about building a MOOC.   In particular I have been slowly building a Web Applications MOOC based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.php-intro.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.php-intro.com<\/a> &#8211; starting from my classroom and moving through a MOOC, back to the classroom and then to an innovative on-campus curriculum.  This in a sense is my master plan for improving education though MOOCs.  They are abstract talking points.  Perhaps if you want to hear more, your campus could retain me as a consultant or this might be a good abstract for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/dr-chuck\/resume\/speaking.htm\">keynote or workshop<\/a> :)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Before the MOOC<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganize\/clean your content &#8211; understand the topic sequence<br \/>\nBuild auto-gradable LTI assignments &#8211; test test test<br \/>\nUse residential students as QA &#8211; rapid feedback<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the Classroom to the MOOC<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nExpand time scale &#8211; roughly 2x<br \/>\nEliminate rigor for rigor sake<br \/>\nAll assessment is low-stakes and leads to learning<br \/>\nAssessments as puzzles rather than precise measures<br \/>\nAutomate automate automate<br \/>\nRecall that LTI tools can be reused outside MOOC platforms<br \/>\nUse CloudFlare to scale static content cheaply<br \/>\nThe magic of 5-week classes and 3-week cohorts<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the MOOC to the classroom<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nUse recordings as assets not lecture replacements<br \/>\nIncrease the pace &#8211; teach more &#8211; make students responsible<br \/>\nUse auto-graded assignments but add manual grading aspects<br \/>\nDo old-school things impossible in a MOOC &#8211; like paper exams<br \/>\nImprove MOOC assessments &#8211; use F2F students as QA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impacting other teachers and students broadly<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nOpen Educational Resources &#8211; free E-Resources<br \/>\nLow-cost printed textbooks &#8211; Amazon CreateSpace<br \/>\nUse CloudFlare to scale static content cheaply<br \/>\nPackage materials (including auto-graders) as self-service web site<br \/>\nGet materials on github &#8211; allow others to fork and track<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impacting your institution and higher education<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nApply the 5-week \/ 3-week magic on campus for skill-like education<br \/>\nTake advantage of on-campus environment and give better student support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently asked to come up with an outline of how I think about building a MOOC. In particular I have been slowly building a Web Applications MOOC based on www.php-intro.com &#8211; starting from my classroom and moving through a MOOC, back to the classroom and then to an innovative on-campus curriculum. This in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}