MOOC Planning Checklist
Planning a MOOC:
- Identify intended audience (demographics)
- Identify learning outcomes
- Other objectives (recruitment, publicity, etc.)
- Determine optimum time and time frame
- Consider credit/certifying options
- Assess available/needed resources
- Technologies
- Learning Management System or Platform
- Synchronous options
- Asynchronous options
- Recordings
- Discussion boards
- Social media
- Staffing (volunteer and paid)
- Administrative
- Facilitators
- Languages
- Assessments and feedback
- Formative/summative
- Grading/assessment options
- Machine grading
- Adaptive learning engine
- Peer assessment rubrics/models
- Proctoring (webcam or in person)
- Sustaining the MOOC after the end of the scheduled sessions
- Continuing attention to what has become OCW