EMOOCs 2017

Designing your MOOC Design Method
Annemieke van den Bijllaardt, Monique Snijder (Centre for Innovation, Leiden University)

The three main objectives of this workshop are:

• Sharing knowledge and insight about course design methods
• Exchanging best practices
• Co-creating a course design method

The workshop relates to the topics:

• Design methods for MOOCs & SPOCs
• Participatory and interdisciplinary design
• Engaging teachers in MOOC design and production
• Learning by doing (within the production process)
• Pedagogical and didactical quality assurance & quality assessment models
• Consultancy skills & powerful questions

This hands-on workshop relates strongly to both the topics and the style of the eMOOCs 2017 conference, focusing on the production process of MOOCs and delivering a tangible outcome to its participants. The participants will learn from the experience of Leiden Uni- versity, as well as from each other. Together we will exchange best practices and come up with an ‘ideal design method’, which the participants can apply directly to their daily practices.

A good start is half the battle. Taking a step back to set up a course design will result in a smooth development process and a coherent course. This is why the Online Learning Lab takes at least two days for every course, working together with the instructors to create a well thought out course design. With the start of product development being so important, this workshop is an opportunity to engage with our audience. Sharing our knowledge, we can co-create the best possible course design method. We will introduce our audience to the course design method we normally use to create our online learning experiences at Leiden University. This workshop will be a design session to create a design method.

At the end of the day, we will have a co-created course design method. During the course of next year, we would like our participants to try out this design and return to us with feed- back. At eMOOCs 2018, we will use the feedback to reflect on our course design method, further adjusting and refining it. We would like to report our findings in an article, focusing on the best practices of online course design methods.