Which platform better allows the use of a MOOC with interactive activities?

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Learning to Teach Online

158 calificaciones

UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales)

Learning to Teach Online

158 calificaciones

Are you an educator? Have you ever wanted to understand more about how to design your class to make better use of educational technology – whether fully online or in blended contexts? Would you like to learn from those who have extensive practical experience with online technologies? The Learning to Teach Online (LTTO) MOOC will help you develop a working understanding of successful online teaching strategies that you can apply in your own practice. The course is based upon the multi award winning open educational resource developed by Dr Simon McIntyre and Karin Watson. Integrating online technologies into your teaching can be a challenging prospect, and it can be difficult to know how to approach it effectively for the benefit of both students and yourself. No one knows your own content and teaching strengths better than you, and the “one size fits all” formula doesn’t always suit everyone. No matter what type of technology you are interested in exploring or your level of experience, this course will help you draw on your teaching strengths and find the approach that is right for you, your students and your educational context. This course will guide you through your journey of understanding how online technologies can enhance your course design. You will have the opportunity to develop your understanding of effective online teaching practices and their relationship to the use of different technologies. You will also be encouraged to progressively design and reflect upon your own online learning activity, assessment or resource for use in your own class if you choose to undertake the course assignments.

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Question and Answers

Simon and Negin answered the top questions asked of them in previously run versions of this course via video. Although from previous courses, the questions raised and the discussions that follow, are very relevant, and they may answer some questions that you have about the course. In the videos Simon and Negin, did reference learners' names and the week in the course, but this is not important in this version of the course. These Q&A videos have been collated according to their relevance to the Modules of the course.

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How do you classify tools that sit between Open and LMS technologies?4:33

How do you stop being overwhelmed or paralysed by all the options?3:33

How to address risks associated with open access technologies while designing an online activity.4:43

Improving video production quality3:13

What about the 'not invented here' syndrome?3:51

What tools were used to make this MOOC?2:51

Which platform better allows the use of a MOOC with interactive activities?4:00

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Associate Professor Simon McIntyre
Associate Dean Education
UNSW Sydney | Art & Design
Dr Negin Mirriahi
Academic Developer, Learning and Teaching Unit (formerly)
Adjunct Lecturer, School of Education

So we have a question from.

And I sincerely apologise because I'm sure I did not pronounce that correctly.

But it's a great question, the question is regarding

what sort of platform for MOOCs, or courses, are best especially

if you want to have some interactive activities in your course or in your MOOC.

With the range of platforms we know and technologies out there, but

are there particular platforms or particular things to look for

in platforms that might be better for an interactive activity.

>> Yeah, it's a tough question in a way,

because there's not often one piece of technology that does everything.

For example,

we found that in this particular MOOC, Coursera has a platform that is good for

certain things, but it didn't allow a lot of the functionality that we wanted.

So we had to actually take other technologies and plug it in.

So we use Qualtrics, it's called Qualtrics for the quizzes, and

some other custom written bits and pieces for other pages.

>> Mm-hm.

>> So I think one of the first things to think about is to start to sit down and

define what your interactivity is.

Because then you'll be able to look for tools that can actually do that.

>> Right, so there isn't one perfect platform out there.

>> No. >> That's really about

what you want to do.

So for example if you want to have some

sort of videos with interactive activities built into them,

whether they be question and answers or little activities that students do,

there's a particular software that's great for that that a lot of people are using.

I think it's called.

>> Articulate Storylines.

>> Yeah, that's right.

>> Articulate Storylines.

And there are other ones like that.

There is something else that was developed at this university, actually, or

someone who went to this university, called Smart Sparrow.

That's a really good piece of technology that

allows you to set up virtual experiments, virtual laboratories.

>> Adaptive learning scenarios.

>> Yeah, a lot of good stuff like that.

But with all of those platforms, it's about looking for

how they plug into something else.

So that's something called, about getting too techy.

Something called LTI, or API, which people have heard of.

>> Right.

>> It's just a way that different tools can communicate between each other.

So that, if you have students, say the Smart Sparrow example,

and we're using Moodle at our institution.

Moodle has to be able to pass the information of which student,

which activity in that tool, so that they can be recorded as a grade.

>> Mm-hm. >> So

they have an LTI, which enables them to talk to each other.

>> So that interact operability between the two different applications.

>> Yeah, so it's worth doing some Googling for LTI, to actually see what that means.

And when you're looking at tools, just look at how they communicate and

push the information back out.

Any other particular things we should be thinking of there?

>> Just that it's not really about one particular platform.

>> Yeah. >> But about the types of activities you

want to do.

So we named a couple of software,

but there's also your basic tools that are in most learning management systems.

You can have an interactive activity using a blog or using a wiki and it's not so

much about the technology, but about how you design the activity.

>> Yeah. >> You can design it to be interactive,

you can design it to not be attractive using the exact same technology.

>> And I think we have in modules three and four,

maybe four particularly, we have in the activities there some questions that

talk about what type of activities, interactive activities you want to do, and

we suggest a whole range of technologies that are appropriate for that.

So rather that us listing all of them off.

It would pay to do the activities in module four, and

that would really enable you to go into depth with some of those ideas.

To see what will be the best fit.

>> Great.

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