Vanessa Vaile's List: course planning

The #teachtheweb experience was about gathering people together to learn and share and collaborate....This post is a reflection on the meta structures and processes that created the experience.

Some points:

Be open from the get-go. Asking active community members to moderate and mentor...displays trust, which leads to empowerment. A mistake to avoid is trying to select only certain community members to contribute to the planning and moderation of the online learning experience....the community as a whole should receive an invitation to contribute....Active conversation needs to take place

Setting up courses in the cloud is a trend in online learning. Whether you are a training company, a non-profit trainer, an experienced hobbyist, or an educational institute, at some point you will want to tap into the cloud, attract new learners from around the globe, and start learning collaboratively.

In this first part of a six-part series, you will learn about MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), which are courses in the  cloud. You will also learn how to set up the core spaces for MOOCs. The articles that follow in the series will move from basic to more complex course features. Having organized MOOCs myself, I admit that for newbies it might look a bit scary at first, but it sure is worth the result.




Inge deWaard's 6-part article on MOOCs
Massive Open Online Courses: Setting Up
Choose and Embed Social Media in Your MOOC
Build a Dashboard for your MOOC
Make Your Cloud/MOOC Course BYOD Friendly
Adding Learning Analytics to Your Open Online Cloud Course or MOOC
Ten Tips: Keep Learners Motivated in Your Open Online Cloud Course or MOOC

There are many ways to set up your own cloud course, but sometimes it is nice to have an example to start from. I’ll be presenting an adapted design of the Massive Open Online Course

Welcome to Planning #teachtheweb! We’re collaborating openly to create the content for the entire learning experience.