Making MOOCs on a Budget

Pedagogies and CommunicationSustainable Interpersonal

Communication

Sustainable Interpersonal Communication

• Students-to-students– They will keep in touch and

communicate in multiple ways disregarding the MOOC team desires

• Staff-to-students– Platforms allow to send massive e-

mails every now and then– Platforms seldom have simple and

useful tools like twitter or facebook

Sustainable Interpersonal Communication

• Rational use of E-mail– E-mail has been declared dead many times...– But e-mail is more alive than ever

• E-mail is being used as center for– Notifications– Task management (along with calendar)

Sustainable Interpersonal Communication

• One may use:– Hangouts– Livestreaming + twitter

backchannel– Open discussion and forums– Clubs, groups and regional

meetups– Social networks– Contests

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Sustainable Interpersonal Communication

• Allow for students to answer other students’ questions

• Monitor unanswered questions• Correct minor errors and problems

Sustainable Interpersonal Communication

• Let the world know about student-student and student-staff interactions

• Use searchable and archiveable communication systems if possible: e.g., twitter, instagram. And public/open.

Video annotations• Youtube annotations• Open Video Annotations– http://www.openvideoannotation.org

On a budget...

• Saving time: Simple tools/social networks: twitter for text with some images; instagram for images with some text. Gmail + google services.

• Saving money: to manage twitter (several accounts), just use TweetDeck, free.

• Saving energy: to manage several social network accounts (write once, multiple publishing) spend some money in HootSuite.

Question open for discussion

• Question: do we need to stick to tools provided by the platform hosting our

MOOC?

Tell us about your opinion !

Thanks for your attention.