Rich, Flexible and Supportive Blended Learning Communities Header Date Rich, Flexible and Supportive Blended Learning Communities Lessons from our MOOCs for On-campus Learning Environments Use of quality online materials to improve access and flexibility Reusable across time spectrum for pre-university prep, on-campus flexibility, paid distance education, post-university continuation, PEVE short courses, etc. Plan for the future – value of open standards Creating a vibrant learning community – value of social platform Outreach to potential students and cooperation with alumni

AIPLAN MOOC Video Page Header Date First point to make is that MOOCs are about much more than Video Lectures. Note many other resources, readings, discussion forum, twitter status feeds, community wiki, tutorial and group meeting spaces. All, I feel, relevant to on-campus course delivery as much as online learning communities. I want to stress especially the potential value of the community sopcial platform as being ver relevant to on campus course delivery and improving the student experience, contact with students and feedback from staff and peer-to-peer support in our learning communities. 2

Use Across the Time Spectrum Pre-University Schools engagement Public engagement Bring potential students up to University entry standards Fix issues for specific country gaps in prerequisites Immediately Prior to University Cover required technical skills in advance for committed learners E.g. Programming languages and modelling techniques, Statistics Practice with proposal writing and presentation skills University Online Course Materials and Resources Blended Learning and Flipped Classrooms Allowing for much greater levels of student engagement versus lecturing Allowing for collaborative course development and presentation across institutions Much wider subject-based community of learners Use of community social platform for improved student interaction and feedback Post-University Lifelong learning opportunities Engage continuation students with current courses as tutors, project advisors and subject matter experts Reuse on campus online course materials for Distance Education and PEVE Use online resources and ODL./MOOC style social platform across the whole time spectrum of our contacts with students and potential students and collaborators. 3

Header Date Moodle Of course we can use our current VLEs like Blackboard learn 9 and Moodle as a basis for delivery of online materials for campus courses, so this is not new. 4

Blended Learning and its Potential http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_learning http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~ai/resources/2013-06-05-Senate/ Use of quality online materials to improve access, flexibility and comprehensibility . Reusable materials for pre-University prep, on campus flexibility, paid distance education, post university continuation, PEVE short courses, etc. Plan for the future (technical standards for high quality, long-lived origination material, and current delivery formats separated) and use open standards (quality, target platforms, negative lesson of proprietary formats, RealMedia and Flash). Rich on-line material and resources, not just video lectures. Build and curate ODL resources properly in future. Stable access routes. Move from personal web and file space to institutional support and management. Creating a vibrant learning community – value of social platform. Peer-to-peer support in the learning community. Pre-University engagement, trial courses, preparatory modules, see before you buy modules, etc. Outreach to alumni, wider staff, technical community, businesses. Continuing contacts and learning afterwards – lifelong learning opportunities. Just so many possibilities, so I leave you with a brain dump of some of the many areas in which online and distance learning and MOOC approaches and techniques can be useful to on-campus course delivery. Its available in the online version of the presentation. 5

On-line Learning Environments for Taught Courses at Edinburgh On-line Course Support – Virtual Learning Environments Virtual Learning Environment: Blackboard Learn 9 Open Virtual Learning Environment: Moodle 2.x School or Programme Hubs: WordPress Online Meeting Spaces – Virtual Classrooms Blackboard Collaborate in Learn 9, Moodle and Standalone Vue – Virtual University of Edinburgh in Second Life and OpenSim Student Support & Social Platform Announcements, Discussion Forums, Personal Blogs (WordPress), Wikis Synchronous Text Chat, Video/Audio/Media Sharing, Asynchronous IM PebblePad – ePortfolio and Student Feedback 7

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