Making a Creative Commons MOOC: Challenges and Opportunities

Huttner-Loan, Elizabeth; Beazley, Garrett; Glenwerks, Corinne; Napier, A. David; Littenberg-Tobias, Joshua; Reich, Justin

doi:10.1109/lwmoocs.2018.8534604

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“…The starting point for unMOOCing is assuring that, to the maximum extent possible, MOOC content is released under an open license that allows participants to remix and reuse course content. This involves thinking through the development of all content resources-text, images, audio, video, and software-to ensure that course developers have the appropriate rights to openly license their materials [35]. If the original MOOC learning resources are openly licensed, then all of those materials can be in a variety of forms on a variety of platforms.…”

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“…MOOCs have been considered part of the Open Education movement mainly because of their open enrollment feature, but in most cases, they are no longer open in the sense of allowing reusing and repurposing their contents. Huttner-Loan et al [35] delivered a MOOC under a Creative Commons licence, but they did not provide an easy way for the students to download and reuse the course contents.…”

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The UnMOOCing Process: Extending the Impact of MOOC Educational Resources as OERs

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) came into the educational ecosystem attracting the attention of the public media, businesses, teachers, and learners from all over the world. The original courses were completely open and free, targeting the worldwide population. However, current MOOC providers have pivoted towards more private directions, and we often find that MOOC materials are completely closed within their hosting platforms and cannot be retrieved from them by their learners. This diminishes the potential of MOOCs by making content available to a small proportion of learners and severely limits the reusability of the educational resources. In this paper, we present a process that we call ‘unMOOCing’, in which we transform the resources of a MOOC into OERs. We taught a MOOC on Open Education in the UNED Abierta platform, and we ‘unMOOCed’ all of its educational resources, making them available to download by the learners that are taking the course. The results of the unMOOCing were very encouraging: the possibility of downloading the course resources was the most highly rated component of the course. Additionally, the two unMOOCed materials that were considered as most useful (presentations and contents in a PDF) were downloaded by 90% of the learners. Now that the majority of MOOC providers are moving towards a more closed educational approach, we believe that this paper sends a powerful message for bringing back the original MOOC concept of ‘Openness’ with the unMOOCing process, thus contributing to the wider dissemination and democratization of education across the globe.

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