ACTIVITY 11.

4
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH MOOCS

Instructions
To realize my Intended Learning Outcomes, I will work my way through these steps.
Step 1: Review the seven domains of PPST and identify competencies I like to develop more.
Step 2: Visit sites of MOOC providers and explore the courses offered that are relevant to
PPST domains I want to work on.
Step 3: Reflect on how I can continue developing my skills through MOOCS.
 
A. OBSERVE

1. Get a copy of the PPST and go over the competencies.

2. On the second column, write the competencies you like to work on.
     Search for MOOCs in the internet which is relevant to the competencies you identified.
You may try these sites: http://www.teachthought.com/technology/list-75-moocs-teachers-
students/
 http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/moocs-best-teachers-free-online-courses.shtml
 http://www.forbes.com/sites/skollworldforum/2013/06/10/moocs-for-teachers-theyre-
learners-too/
 https://www.mooc-list.com/categories/teacher-professional-development
 http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/0430/new-online-teacher-training-program-joins-
mooc-madness/

4.Indicate the MOOC provider. You might need to create an account in the different MOOC
providers to explore their MOOCs.
 

MOOCs related in
the
Competencies I want MOOC
PPST Domain competency/ies
to work on Provider
(Include a short
description)
 Neutral
 Learn about Networks for
artificial Machine
Learning
neutral network and
emphasize both
1. Content how they’re being
the basic
Knowledge and used  COURSERA
algorithm and the
Pedagogy for machine learning
practical
as applied to speech
trick need to get
and object.
them work
well.

 Effective
 I want to work on classroom
to
interactions:
have a good Supporting
learning Young Children’s
2. The Learning
environment for my Development  COURSERA
Environment
students to learn provides
Effectively and conducive
clearly. learning
Environment.

 I want to work on  Moralities of

3. Diversity of  COURSERA
Learners to everyday life

have fairness and explores the

 wide
psychological
understanding for
function of our
my
moral lives
future students

 k-13 teaching in
 Apply all the the 21
learning st
guides for the
century provides
4. Curriculum students
new  COURSERA
and Planning to have a good
teaching
learning and attain it
strategies to
all.
develop more the
education.

 Performance
assessment in
 I want to work on
my the virtual
classroom was
performance skills to effective measure
be an effective of
5. Assessing and
future performance and  COURSERA
Reporting
Educator. In this I assessment are a
will crucial
practice my potential. component of
any virtual
program.

 Performance  The effective

6. Community  COURSERA
Linkages and assessment in
communication
Professional specialization
the virtual classroom
Engagement takes you on
was
effective measure of a journey of self-
performance and realization.
assessment are a You’ll learn that
crucial excellence
component of any in communication
virtual involves
program. the ability to
 express.

 Computer skills
and literacy

provides students
 I want to work on with a
7. Personal about my skills in comprehensive
Growth and everything to introduction
 COURSERA
Professional enhance my skills. I to computers.
Development want to ready myself Students will
in real world. explore a variety
of topics in
computer.

 
B. ANALYZE
From among the MOOCs you explored, pick at least three which you believe are the most
appropriate for you. Describe the MOOCs below.

MOOC Title Presentations: Social Studies Speaking so that People Listen

Provider: The courser is the provider of this course. Courser is an education platform that
partners with help top Universities and Organizations worldwide to offer courses online
for anyone.

Objectives of the MOOC: This course will give you helpful tips for making effective
speeches and delivering them well in typical American settings. You’ll learn how to
organize a presentation, how to make it memorable, and how to communicate clearly. This will
help you to improve your public speaking skills, either for school work.

 
Content Outline: This course will help you to have several opportunities to demonstrate
the presentation skills that you learn. It also helps you to gain the experience you need to be
more confident when you give speech in the classroom or job. Learners will record several
videos of themselves giving assigned presentations and upload the videos for peer
feedback.
  
Why did you pick this MOOC? As a student that specialized in Social Studies it will help me a lot to
improve my skills in understanding the different culture and religions around the world. In this course, it
may build my confidence to speak well in front of many

people. I will be becoming a good communicator through this and it will help me to my

future profession to face my learners confidently.

MOOC Title :Social Studies for Research Publication Purposes

Provider: The provider of this course is the courser which is designed to help students achieve mastery
over course material. They provide challenging assessments, interactive exercises during lesson.

Objectives of the MOOC: The objective of this course, will acquire the knowledge and skills
that are deemed to be essential to access in scientific writing. You will develop your expertise with a
range of academic literacy skills self-editing strategies to prepare a publishable manuscript that
editors will take seriously. You will learn the unwritten rules of good writing to meet the requirements of
modern-day research publications.

 
Content Outline:This course is the perfect first step into the world of research publication. It is design
to take your knowledge of academic writing and term it into an in-depth understanding of
content trends in scientific writing to help you get published in an international journal, win a
research project or report research finding.

 
Why did you pick this MOOC? I picked his course because it will help me to improve my skills in
language and culture and at the same time to more knowledgeable about research publication. I want
to try to write a journal or article about the problems that our environment has and to inform people
about it. It will help me to voice out my thoughts through writing.

 
3. MOOC Title:Social Studies World
Provider: The MOOC provider is coursera created by UCI Extension continuing education. The
course begins with a welcome message and an overview of the specialization.

Objectives of the MOOC: The course learning objectives are to determine whether the objectives of
this specialization align with your learning goals. Evaluate your current level of proficiency in
business English communication. Present relevant information about yourself in a discussion forum
and develop vocabulary related to job and companies.

 
Content Outline: In this course, there is 5 weeks time/day commitment and the contents are
Introduction to Business in Araling Panlipunan, Introduction, Meeting arrangement

on the telephone and the last is meeting arrangement ( Email ). During the course, you will

begin learning vocabulary and costumer related to socializing and Araling Panlipunan.

 
Why did you pick this MOOC? I believed that this MOOC will help me to become good communicator
and to practice my language skills. It will help me to have an experience about entering to a
business. In this, I will also to be prepared in my future profession through developing my vocabulary
and build confidence to speak in front of other people.

C. REFLECT

1. How can MOOCs help you in your future career as a professional teacher and as a lifelong
learner?

As a future teacher, MOOCs helps me to realized that technology has a big part on our lives and
at the same time in our learning. Through MOOCs we can explore more new things that can help us in
our teaching-learning process. It more convenient for me as a future teacher to get information and
at the same time it helps me to enhance my computer skills on exploring online learning through
MOOCs. It is an educational course content that may help a lot the students if using this. As a lifelong
learner, MOOCs help me to give the opportunity to have a quality education. The knowledge that I will
get in MOOCs will help me to become a knowledgeable person I will share it to my future
students someday. It also helps to become prepared for my future profession. I will use it in my daily life
of teaching for my students to have higher education.

2. What did you learn from the way the providers use technology to teach in the MOOCs?

One of the learning that I gained from the way the providers used technology to teach
in the Massive Open-Online Courses (MOOCs)was technology provides an opportunity for many
people to have a good education. Also, that nowadays, distance is not a barrier anymore to us to learn
and it’s all because of the help of technology and at the same time MOOCs. It is more convenient to
learn through MOOCs for the people who have a busy life in working and not able to go to school
because MOOCs are online courses that open to a group of people. This course can be accessed
by anyone anywhere as long as they have internet connection. Even though it is online courses,
people of the group builds a learning community through opportunities to interact. MOOCs give their
participants to test knowledge about the topics that they discussed like in classroom but in this
it will give online. They also provide a feedback from the performance of their participants through
the use of technology.

3. How will you prepare yourself for MOOCs, as a learner, and as a teacher who may
someday teach a MOOC?
I will prepare myself for Massive Open-Online Courses (MOOCs) as a learner by trying to use this
course. I will explore their MOOCs providers like Coursera, Edx, Udacity, Udemy, Iversity and ect to learn
more about this course. Through exploring these courses I will become familiar to their programs. It will
not be so hard for me to try MOOCs. After I prepared myself by experiencing this courses, so as for the
future teacher that who may someday teach a MOOCs by still using it. By that time, I assure to
myself that I will improve more my skills to be more an effective facilitator. So that I will help my
future students effectively to learn. For me the learning experience of online learning and traditional is
just the same. The only difference between the two is just a place. They are both helping the
participants or learners to learn in different ways of learning. To make it short, it is not hard to become
prepare for MOOCs because it is just like traditional but now through using technology.