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Free MiniMooc Making the most of online social learning

We leren momenteel veel over online leren, vooral als het gaat om webinars en virtual classrooms. Er zijn alternatieven, zoals online social learning. In deze gratis (Engelse) MiniMOOC leer je samen met honderden learning professionals van over de hele wereld alles over ‘online social learning’ door het tegelijkertijd zelf te ervaren.

De MiniMooc (8 - 18 september) is Engelstalig, omdat het internationaal wordt uitgezet zodat learning professionals uit alle landen kunnen deelnemen.

At the moment, learning professionals are looking for the best methods to transform their courses and training products. As aNewSpring, we get a lot of questions about what’s possible with online learning platforms and we’re offering help and support.



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Why online social learning?

Currently, lots of attention goes to live online learning; a synchronous form of learning where delivery and consumption takes place at the same time, like in a webinar or virtual classroom. There are pro’s and con’s; webinars can reach a large group of people, but often lack engagement. Virtual classrooms can be very engaging for learners, but require a lot of (design) effort and are less suitable for large groups.

Asynchronous forms of online learning offer interesting alternatives. It’s where all participants are working and learning together at the same (virtual) location, but not necessarily at the same time. During a certain period, content is regularly made available and discussions are started for all learners to dive into and join at their own pace. This way, your learning approach can be very engaging and it can handle a large number of learners, without everyone having to be present at the same time.
 

What’s the MiniMOOC about?

How to make online social learning successful? How to apply it in your situation? Through experiencing online social learning in this Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), you’ll learn how to do it yourself. We’ll cover topics like:
  • designing online social learning
  • learning theory and principles behind social learning
  • moderating online social learning
  • harvesting results from online social learning


How does this MiniMOOC work?

First of all, what’s so ‘mini’ about this MOOC? It’s small in its duration, not in its reach or impact. It’s still a massive course in the sense that there will be many learning professionals from all over the world to engage with. The course will take place over just two weeks and twice a week (on Tuesdays and Fridays) new content will be made available.

Participants will get access to the aNewSpring learning platform where they will find the content related to the core topics and where the learning conversation will take place.
 

Results of the previous MiniMooc

This isn’t the first time we’ve ran a social MiniMooc. Last April/May we did a previous version of this Mooc with lots of results, wins and learns.

You can read the process and results of this Mooc in our blog: “The surprising possibilities of online social learning” or just take quick a look at our infograph’s:


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