Designing Massive Open Online Courses Vladimir Kukharenko 1 1 National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”, Frunze Street 21, 61002 Kharkiv Ukraine kukharenkovn@gmail.com Abstract. Connective massive open online courses (MOOC) for teachers from Ukraine and Russia were conducted in 2011-2013. They were: Strategy of Dis- tance Learning in the Organization, Social Services in Distance Learning, Dis- tance Learning from A to Z, Designing Online Courses. The accumulated ex- perience allowed to develop recommendations for each ADDIE step of MOOC designing for the Russian-speaking audience. Keywords. Connectivism, massive open online course, personal learning envi- ronment, ADDIE Key terms. Competence, Didactics, TeachingMethodology, TeachingProcess, ICTEnvironment 1 Introduction The term “massive open online course” (MOOC) was introduced by Dave Cormier in George Siemens’s distance course “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge” in 2008 and 2010 (http://connect.downes.ca/). This course was devoted to the problems of a new learning theory – connectivism, according to which learning is the process of creating a network (more than 2200 people studied). Units of such a network are ex- ternal entities (people, organizations, libraries, websites, books, journals, databases, or any other sources of information). The act of learning implies the creation of the ex- ternal network units. Over the last few years several dozens of open online courses have been conducted. Those courses are based on the new approach named “connec- tivism” and therefore abbreviated as cMOOC. cMOOC is characterized [1] by a structured network, the use of daily bulletin, a big amount of information material, the social approach to teaching. cMOOC enables people to cluster around the central core. In cMOOC the teacher plays a lot of roles [2]: he is an amplifier, tutor, he directs and socially manages creation of meanings, he filters, models and is always present. The student’s success in cMOOC is provided by his ability to navigate the net- work, the formed personal learning environment (PLE) and personal learning network