MDDE 660: Professional Seminar

Change: Education, Learning, and Technology

A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

Delivery mode: Grouped study using the Internet, The Landing and Moodle

Credits: 3 - Elective

Instructor Winter 2012: Mohamed Ally

Course Overview

MDDE660 is a seminar course for students in the M.Ed. (Distance Education) program who wish to interact with the instructors, guests and other students in an unusual course where the learning results from interacting with experts in the field of distance education and the activities you undertake. This course will introduce participants to the major contributions being made to the field by today’s researchers. Each week, a professor or researcher will introduce his or her central contribution to the field.

Technologies Used: Throughout this "course" participants will use a variety of technologies, for example, blogs, Second Life, RSS Readers, UStream, etc. Course resources will be provided using gRSShopper and online seminars delivered using Adobe Connect and other software.

Course Activities

This type of course is called a ‘connectivist' course and is based on four major types of activity:

1. Interact with the expert presenters in the MOOC course.
2. Obtain current information on the use of technology in education and training.
3. Select a topic in the course and elaborate on that topic.
4. Contribute to the discussion in the MOOC course.

 

Organization and Schedule

This course will run for 13 weeks, refer to the weekly schedule of presentations on the MOOC website.

Student Evaluation

Reflection on MOOC process (3-5 blogs in The Landing)		20%
Contribution to MOOC discussions/media (document by aggregating and sending to instructor)		40%
Elaborate on one of the topics in the MOOC course in a 3,000 word APA style research paper		40%
Total		100%

 

CDE - Last updated by MM October 26, 2011