The Birth of the Mechanical MOOC

My slides for our group presentation for Open Education Week with Karen Fasimpaur and Jane Park. Full presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/kfasimpaur/p2-pu-openedwk2013

1. P2PU Labs: The Birth of the Mechanical MOOC Vanessa Gennarelli Learning Lead, P2PU @mozzadrella
2. What is P2PU? Free, CC-BY-SA, open to anyone Core values Openness Community Peer Learning Facilitated courses on p2pu.org P2PU Labs projects experiment with group size and new tools
3. Problem: MOOC Mania
4. The “Solution” Space How can we make a better experience that’s low cost & low-friction? Tap all of the open materials out there Build with pre-existing tools Prompt more intimate groups Easy to bootstrap
5. Mechanical MOOC lives!
6. An Experiment! Small groups formed based on: Experience Learning Style Time zone
7. A Character
8. Results 5,775 initially registered Between 2,733 and 1,650 were engaged in the last week Dropoff before course started left some groups half-formed We introduced an intermediary “ready-to-go” step
9. Findings and Implications
10. Questions?? Vanessa Gennarelli Learning Lead, P2PU @mozzadrella