{"id":187,"date":"2015-09-09T12:38:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/?p=187"},"modified":"2015-11-08T20:04:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:04:34","slug":"adventures-in-mooc-mentoring-jtel-2015-summer-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/2015\/09\/09\/adventures-in-mooc-mentoring-jtel-2015-summer-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in MOOC mentoring – JTEL 2015 summer school"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Tuesday 7th July, Manuel and I gave a workshop presentation<\/a> on mentor roles and coordination of mentors in MOOCs. The workshop was part of the Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhance Learning (JTEL) on the beautiful island of Ischia, Italy.<\/p>\n

The workshop provided some background on the theories of online learning and mentoring (such as Salmon’s 5 step model of online learning) that we consider relevant for the FutureLearn MOOC platform.<\/p>\n

Salmon’s (2000) 5 step model:<\/p>\n

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We drew on ideas from our paper Mentors as connectors<\/a> at eMOOCs 2015<\/a> and our experiences as University of Southampton mentors and coordinators. Participants then split into groups to plan a mentoring strategy for a MOOC of their choice.<\/p>\n

The participants were encouraged to consider a range of decisions for planning a mentoring strategy:<\/p>\n