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#23keysmoocModule 6: Let’s foster student collaboration!
Sílvia SimonC4D, UdG, [email protected], @silviasimonr
Miquel DURANC4D, UdG, [email protected], @miquelduran
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What this module is about
• We should encourage students to collaborate remotely
• Using all kinds of tools– Facebook– Twitter– Forums– Wikis
• Student feedback is also a way of learning• Students are the main actors of a MOOC; the
instructor is not!
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Student Diversity
• MOOCs may be followed all over the world. Thus, students may– Be in a different time zone– Have different rythms– Be in a different learning season– Follow a different calendar
• Individual student-instructor interactions should be avoided. They are unsustainable and an energy drain
• Students should motivate mutually, answer their own questions, place doubts, build knowledge.
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Pareto’s Law
• 20% of students place 80% of questions, answers, problems, rewards, etc.
• In forums, our experience shows that 10% of participants generate 90% of content.
• Here we have a contradiction: e.g. MiriadaX hs an internal forum... but that means that is is not Open... and no one outside the platform can even read it.
• Depending on the MOOC being contructivist or expositive, student feedback, participation and collaboration will be different.
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ABOUT FORUMS
• It is a good idea to open a forum xxx for each module. One should try to maintain order, even though entropy (disordre) always increases.
• Forum intervention by instructors should be limited to correcting errors and technical advice which is of interest to a broad population of students.
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On social networks
• Wide availabily• May hinder actual interaction• Do we want to use such interactions to show
the interest of current students? It is also a tool for promoting the course or for attracting future students.
• Better to use internal forums for “private” course discussions, and external social networks for activity that is attractive
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On private student forums
• Probably students will group automatically• They may create private facebook groups• Even though direct student-instructor interaction
is discouraged, remindind students that MOOC’s leaders are always aware and awake, that “they are there” will keep them interested.
• A few messages on stuff external to the course is always welcome, e.g. sports of cultural events.
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About wikis
• Wikis may be relevant depending on the course• Consider use of Wikipedia articles... or better,
create and improve Wikipedia articles as part of the course.
• Wiki use requires students’ skills to be levelled, otherwise those with lower skills will withdraw from the course of not participate in any activity
• Building up a wiki should result into something that is measurable, assessable and valuable.
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Virtual meetings
• A good way to keep students interested in the course is to organize google hangouts with a few people.
• But even better: schedule a livecast appearance (youtube, google, livestream, ustream...) and allow for questions to be placed over twitter or another way of instant (private or public) messaging.
• Optimize student capability for the hangouts• Remember that modules may be followed anytime,
depending on the particular course scheduling.• One may also schedule a forum sessions, thus with no
video appearance, only text answers.
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Student meetings
• Student meetups might be encouraged. No differences should be made between groups of students, but one may promote student physical or virtual meetings to increase study and learning outcomes.
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Final points
• On notetaking: since videos are a key element of MOOCs, one may wonder about notetaking by participants and sharing them
• Videonotes by Goole and Open Anonations may be a good way to share comments, notes and doubts.