Poster #4 - Design Considerations for Building a More Collaborative MOOC for In-Service Teacher Professional Development

• In Event: 45.096 - MTCC Poster Session 10
  In Poster Session: 45.096-1 - Supporting Educators in and With Technology Tools

Abstract

There is a need among teachers for greater access to effective, on-demand, low-cost professional development (PD). Traditional face-to-face PD is expensive, and limited in ability to scale. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) provide important information about the viability of online approaches at larger scales particularly because a large proportion of MOOC participants are teachers. However, traditional MOOCs are not designed for collaboration and social interaction among participants that build communities. This study provides insights in designing for collaboration within a MOOC aimed at delivering PD to teachers on existing MOOC platforms (in our case edX). Through a pilot test of our design with teachers, we found a number of themes around collaboration that will be promising for future content development.

Authors

• Katherine M Miller, University of Pennsylvania

• Susan A. Yoon, University of Pennsylvania

• Jooeun Shim, University of Pennsylvania

• Daniel Wendel

• Ilana Schoenfeld

• Emma Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology