In
the latter years of my k-12 teaching career I was a career discoveries teacher
at the middle school level. The content
of this course was aimed at introducing students to the broad technological areas
found in the 21st century, and the career possibilities associated
with those areas. This was a fun course
that I enjoyed teaching, and I think that when done correctly, it can provide students
with useful skills. With that in mind,
the MOOC that I am going to create for AHE 602 is intended to provide participating
students with the opportunity to explore a vast array of cutting edge
technologies, and to acquire technologies skills that have many useful
applications within various career fields.
Considering
the nature of the MOOC format, I consider the connectivists learning theory to
be an appropriate framework for the design of this class. As the instructor of a MOOC, there is only so
much interaction that I can have with the students, especially if it is a large
MOOC. As such, I think that collaboration among students
will be critical to their learning experiences.
For this MOOC I hope to design learning activities that provide students
with the needed content material and access to areas where they can collaborate. DeBaise (2013) described a personal MOOC
learning experience that created a “spider’s web” network of peers that
fostered a rich learning experience.
This is the type of learning experience that I hope to create.
At
the moment, I intend to use the free Blackboard CourseSites program to host my
MOOC. It seems to me to be the easiest
tool available at my disposal. I intend
to incorporate a wide variety of resources into the MOOC’s course material. Video lectures, online content videos, as
well as other documents including web resources will be used to disseminate
content material. In addition, I
intended to provide the students with opportunities to use a variety of
technology tools in order to provide meaningful learning opportunities and to
foster collaboration. Students will be
required to utilize the journal and discussion board features incorporated into
the course sites program. In addition,
the students will have assignments that require them to use Twitter as a means
of communication and learning, and the students will develop electronic
portfolio utilizing a still undetermined program (I am unimpressed with the
portfolio feature in Blackboard). Once a
student has completed this MOOC, my hope is they will have met the following
objectives:
·
Students will develop
the ability to utilize social media in an professionally appropriate manner
·
Each student will
identify a career areas that is of particular interest to them
·
Each students
will develop a basic competence with standard computer operations and
applications
·
Each student
will utilize various technological tools in the creation of course modules and
understand how those tools are utilized within the industry
·
Students will
collaborate with other students to heighten the learning experience
References
DeBaise, J. (2013).
Learn like an arachnid: Why I’m MOOCifying. Retrieved from
http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/MOOCifying.html
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