Do I have goals in the Change MOOC?

Posted by: jupidu on: April 6, 2012

In: #change11
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After an interesting interview with Lou McGill about my MOOC experience I want to think about my goals for this MOOC again. I did some rather superficially planning at the beginning of the MOOC (see “my steps” and “2 Ideen“) and discarded them in January. Now I want to look back, reflect and define some new goals (if possible).

Digest of the September posts (italic: content of the old blog posts)

What is success to you? – to succeed in contributing, getting involved – as I’m participating until now I have succeeded in getting involved and contributing
Plan your interaction habits. – I will try to spend 30 minutes each day, or 3,5 hours a week – overall I spent about 3,5 hours a week (some weeks more, some weeks less)
Manage you expectations. - I’m succeeding in this as well – after some frustrations in January when other MOOC participants changed to new MOOCs (I asked myself if I’m the only person being left in the Change MOOC??)
google+ testen mit dem mooc kurs – to test Google+ within this MOOC course – I didn’t do this exactly as I planned it but I developed an open training in Google+ for staff of companies (3 weeks) who want to use the Web. It was my first experience with an open course, about 60 persons participated and it was really interesting.
leute sammeln, aber wie? - how to collect other learners in the MOOC? – I established a rather small group of persons I got to know through the MOOC and I’m enjoying to read their twitter contributions and their blog posts.

Reflection of my MOOC experience writing papers during January – March 2012

Globales Lernen im Web – Welches Potential haben offene Online-Kurse für Bildungssysteme, Lern- und Lehrprozesse? - Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at - Global Learning in the Web – what is the potential of open online courses for learning? (submitted)
Lernerfahrungen in einem offenen Online-Kurs - „Sensemaking” in einem Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – GMW 2012 – Learning experiences in an open online course – Sensemaking in a MOOC (submitted)
Am I smart enough to participate in a MOOC? - 11th Annual IAS-STS Conference “Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies” May 7-8, 2012 - Special Session: Mobile learning and working – how ‚smart technologies‘ change our lives (Abstract accepted)

Goals for the last months of the Change MOOC

After the reflection phase in the last months I want to “return” to the content of the Change MOOC and I plan to intensify my collection of “people” (I’m not sure how I will do it in detail).
I’m looking forward to our eLearning Conference in September 2012 where I will connect the Change MOOC to the evaluation results of my Google+ course in my keynote. Another contribution will deal about measuring of success in MOOCs (by Al Pedrazzoli, Switzerland)
I hope that the COST proposal for research networks where I was invited to participate in a proposal about OOCs will be successful.
In our ZML-journal club we will discuss the concept of connectivsm again, and I want to understand it better than until now.