MOOC Use in Blended Scenarios: Some Surprises and Opportunities | InstructureCon 2013

Mike Caulfield of Washington State University Vancouver

One of the emerging trends of the last year has been the use of MOOCs in flipped classroom scenarios. While San Jose State University's institutional experiments in this area have garnered the most press, teachers from around the world are experimenting with this educational model in more organic, emergent ways.

This presentation, based on interviews with multiple practitioners of the "distributed flip" and on analysis of learning system data, will detail the way that MOOCs are currently being used to supplement traditional campus-based education, as well as identify obstacles to this approach. Key findings include that MOOCs are predominantly being used in this context as open (or semi-open) educational resources rather than as massive courses, and that there is a broadly perceived need to develop communities of practice around these resources to aid in the development and implementation of them for classroom use. Additional barriers to use are identified, and some tentative recommendations are proposed. Ample time will be provided for what we hope will be a vigorous debate among session participants about the larger implications of these trends.

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"Change our thinking from cohorts to communities to support learning in MOOCs." This seems like a great approach for F2F, online and MOOCs. It seems easier to pull off in a MOOC since there are more voices in the community.