A team approach to MOOC: First week experience and lessons learned

MOOC has been an interesting experience. Creativity, the central topic, is highly relevant and opportunities to explore it are quite diverse (no kidding, the number of sources is amazing). Because of this we (Liliana—working from Colombia--and Alvaro—working from USA) decided to use a “team approach”. We work asynchronously reviewing content and feeding a shared space with notes, and synchronously, discussing ideas and building knowledge.

We explored all digital tools suggested by organizers. CMC11 tags have been useful, as well as notifications from the different channels.

Readings have brought relevant ideas concerning how to foster creativity and the role that the learning environment settings play. Multicultural issues are important, as well as the relevance of challenges posted to participants.

Interaction with others becomes a superb challenge, since there are a growing number of postings in each of the channels, and multiple conversations appear. We have dealt with people who are interested in the relationships of creativity and play / game. Our small sub community is becoming organized, and we hope there will be a lot of new opportunities to dig into this area.

We would like to know how other participants are dealing with the amount of information and resources available in MOOC. What key ideas have you gotten in order to be succesful learning from a global interaction?.

Liliana Pedraza, 

Alvaro Galvis