My Micro-MOOC Goal

I have been acting as a student for 20 years, and it is my first time to be a teacher for a course. Honestly, I feel little nervous about it. From a student's angle, I may have no enough abilities to give a lecture well, but I think I may know what kinds of material are good for the students's learning process, and I may be able to provide some different ways of learning which is beneficial to students.

I still haven't decided the platform for my micro-MOOC. The course I want to open is Intercultural Communication which I have took last semester, and I am really interested in it. The course will contains five topics which are important and discussed a lot in intercultural communication studies. I think the audiences of this course is mainly undergraduate students who have little knowledge about intercultural communication. I think it probably is a five-seven weeks of course, and I will introduce a specific topic on intercultural communication in every week. I plan to use this pedagogical approach from many ways: video/traditional lectures, some reading materials, and cases. I also will use discussion board, Twitter, and blog as the platform for the students where they can express their opinions and ideas about the course and discuss the topics. Particularly,I want to use online sharing room where students can share their different experience of intercultural communication or cultural shock through words, pictures, videos, or anything they want. In my micro- MOOC, there is no quiz, but there are some articles need to write, like reading response; students are required to do some project, like introducing themselves from their cultural background; showing some artifacts which can present their cultural characteristics； and analyzing a movie using the contents in this course.   

Actually, in my mind, my role in this course is a material collector and course designer more than a lecture deliverer. I think what I do is to provide students the selected learning material and method, put them into a relatively creative way, and let them deplore the knowledge mainly by themselves. What is more, I want to highlight the collaboration among students, and I do hope I can provide the students opportunities to work with people who come from different cultural backgrounds.Meanwhile, I will try to promote students learn from each other. 

After this course, the students should have a basic understanding about intercultural communication; and a relatively comprehensive understanding about some specific topics in this area;prepare them better for intercultural communication in the future.From my angle, I hope they can learn how to understand a different people or phenomenon from different culture, and learn to reduce prejudices and respect other different things.