Beginning in 2013, educators from the National Writing Project network (NWP) designed and facilitated CLMOOC to support educators in playing with the design and learning framework of Connected Learning. The Connected Learning framework supports learning as an interest-driven, production-centered activity in networked and peer-based communities and grew out of work of the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Initiative.
Through support from the MacArthur Foundation and as part of the NWP’s Educator Innovator Initiative, CLMOOC involved thousands of teachers alongside Educator Innovator partner organizations. It was designed as a massive open online collaboration rather than a course and it’s design was influenced by other connectivist, open, online opportunities in the larger field of cMOOCs (connectivist Massive Open Online Courses), such as #change11, #etmooc,#DS106,
This history was taken in part from the open access journal article Remix as Professional Learning: Educators’ Iterative Literacy Practice in CLMOOC by participants and researchers Anna Smith, Stephanie West-Puckett, Christina Cantrill & Mia Zamora.
Read more about CLMOOC:
- Making a MOOC: What we learned from CLMOOC (Collection, December 2013)
- In June, A Unique Chance for Educators to Renew, Remix, Reimagine at CLMOOC (Blog post, May 2015)
Learn more about National Writing Project’s Educator Innovator Initiative.
Maps of Participation in CLMOOC by Year
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
