Presentation for InstructureCon 2013 by Sean Michael Morris (@slamteacher) and Jesse Stommel (@Jessifer).

1. InstructureCon - June 20, 2013
Using Canvas to Change the World:
The LMS as Portal to Connected Learning
Sean Michael Morris (@slamteacher) and Jesse Stommel (@Jessifer)
[image by Kevin Dooley]
#moocmooc #instcon
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4. Hybrid Pedagogy is not just an academic journal, it is a
journal of praxis. Pedagogy -- its nature, practice, innovation
-- is always the journal’s focus. But rather than simply talk
about pedagogy, we prefer to tamper with it and try it out on
every conceivable scale.
In the last year, Hybrid Pedagogy set loose:
• MOOC MOOC
• Twitter vs. Zombies
• Digital Writing Month
• THATCamp Hybrid Pedagogy
All of which set the stage for our latest exploration into the
world of MOOCs: the MOOCification MOOCathon.
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6. MOOC MOOC was announced in the Hybrid Pedagogy
article, “The March of the MOOCs: Monstrous Open
Online Courses,” in which Jesse argues,
“Content and learning are two separate things, often at
odds. Most content is finite and contained; whereas,
learning is chaotic and indeterminate. It’s relatively easy
to create technological infrastructures to deliver content,
harder to build relationships and learning communities
to help mediate, inflect, and disrupt that content.”
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7. From “Hacking the Screwdriver: Instructure’s Canvas and
the Future of the LMS”:
“Technology is only a tool -- a hammer or a screwdriver
[...] Even the screwdriver can be hacked.”
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9. From “Why Online Programs Fail, and 5 Things We Can
Do About It”:
“Massive courses should be massively taught.”
(preferably with collaborators like @chris_friend and @writingasjoe)
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10. MOOC MOOC ran in August 2012 with over 600 registered participants and
again in January 2013 with over 1000 registered participants. During the first
iteration of the week-long MOOC MOOC, there were over 6000 unique visitors
to the course and almost 7000 tweets on the #moocmooc hashtag.
“Analytics and #moocmooc” by Sheila MacNeill
An interactive graphic representation of #moocmooc Twitter participation by Martin Hawksey
Analysing threaded Twitter discussions from large archives using NodeXL by Martin Hawksey
#moocmooc tagged twitter posts for first six days of MOOC MOOC by Andrew Staroscik
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11. Some critics of MOOCs hold that these massive courses cannot possibly be interactive, and
certainly not at the level of the traditional classroom. Because of the sheer number of participants,
facilitators can indeed be hard-put to set the table for meaningful discussion and collaboration.
However, participants in MOOC MOOC functioned almost like a hive mind.They had individual
agency, but the course activities emphasized the capacities of learners working in concert.
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12. Learning is ecstatic, rampant, distributed.The LMS is a delivery
device, a portal to connected learning, not an ecosystem.
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13. The 24-hour MOOCification MOOCathon resulted in 1979 tweets on the #moocmooc hashtag
from 176 participants, in addition to the discussions underway in the forums within Canvas. For
full-data, see bit.ly/MOOCathon. And click here for a graphical representation of contributions.
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14. MOOCification is really a kind of pillaging.You take what
works about MOOCs, the best kinds of pedagogy they
open up, and apply them to more traditional classes.We
should create learning experiences that are permeable. A
course should live outside the institution in which it’s
housed, beyond the semester during which its taught,
and even off the continent where it’s born. In this, the
LMS provides a map and not a destination.
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15. MOOC While You Sleep: “How can we create learning
experiences that persist beyond our ability to make them go?”
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