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FUN: The French initiative on MOOCExample: MOOCs at the University of Montpellier

Prof. David CASSAGNEVice-President in charge of ICT for Education at University of Montpellier

Vice-President of GIP FUN-MOOC

Contact : david.cassagne@umontpellier.fr

XII FORUM BRAFITEC – MONTPELLIER 2016

FUN: The French initiative on MOOCPart of a presentation given at eMOOC 2016, February 22-24, 2016 by: Catherine Mongenet, Executive director, FUN-MOOC

June 2013

October 2013

January 2014

May 2014

March 2015

Sept 2015

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Project Launch

• Combinaison of a Bottom-up demand and a Top-down implication

• A shared MOOC platform for French higher education institutions

• Several institutions and many experts involved => Agile organization

• Open source solution

From a start-up like project to a public organization

June 2013

October 2013

January 2014

May 2014

March 2015

Sept 2015

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Platform release• FUN ensures the

confidentiality of the learners data

• FUN provides labs with anonymized data for research purposes

Start of the first courses

• 25 MOOC• 10 HE

institutions

From a start-up like project to a public organization

June 2013

October 2013

January 2014

May 2014

March 2015

Sept 2015

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Launch of the public consultation

• 30 institutions declared their interest• A consortium of 21 institutions set

up a proposal by December 2014

GO from the ministry

From a start-up like project to a public organization

June 2013

October 2013

January 2014

May 2014

March 2015

Sept 2015

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Launch of a public organization FUN-MOOC• With 7 HE institutions, 22 have joined in December 2015, most of

them being ComUE• 194 HE French institutions

From a start-up like project to a public organization

FUN : Facts and figures

Enrollments

+ 1 870 000

Learners

+ 708 000+ 120 countries

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Catalogue

200 courses+ 300 sessions

+ 75 institutions

FUN : Facts and figures

Enrollments

+ 1 870 000

Learners

+ 708 000+ 120 countries

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Catalogue

200 courses+ 300 sessions

+ 75 institutions

FUN : Facts and figures

Where are they from?

Enrollments

+ 1 870 000

Learners

+ 708 000+ 120 countries

17 %6 %

70 %5 %

0,1 %

1,5%

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Maroc 3,60% Sénégal 1,24%Côte d'Ivoire 2,22% Burkina Faso 0,79%Algérie 1,86% Congo (RDC) 0,75%Cameroun 1,40% Guinée 0,56%Tunisie 1,35% Madagascar 0,47%

Catalogue

200 courses+ 300 sessions

+ 75 institutions

FUN today : a community, a team

A network of 730 MOOC representatives in 180 French HE institutions

Training sessions : more than 580 people have been trained since Sept. 2013

Support for MOOC conception and production

FUN-MOOC Staff : 15 persons

Working groups on various topics (certification, accessibility and handicap, surveys and data analytics, open edition, intellectual property…)

Participatory events : MOOCAMP Days; Hackathon

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Example: MOOCs at University of Montpellier

MOOC Studio

Support and technical staffMOOC creation can be included in teaching activities

MOOCs at University of Montpellier 2014 - 2015November 2015

MOOC Startup creationVéronique Bessière, Eric Stéphany (IAE Montpellier)

12 420 enrolments927 statements of accomplishment

April 2015MOOC Sales Force Management

Christophe Fournier (IAE Montpellier)

9 410 enrolments661 statements of accomplishment

January 2014MOOC Sustainable development of cities

Chrysta Pélissier, Laurent Vassallo (IUT Béziers)

6434 enrolments783 statements of accomplishment

MOOCs at University of Montpellier 2016

MOOC L’Histoire des Sciences : Une introductionFaculté d’EducationMuriel Guedj (UM)Jonathan Simon (Université Lyon I), Hugues Chabot (Université Lyon I), Sylvain Laube (Université de Brest), Pascal Nouvel (UPVM), Etienne Klein (CEA), Marc Lachièze-Rey (CNRS)8431 enrolments 18/05/2016

MOOC Comptabilité de gestion et pratique du tableurIAE Montpellier Céline Averseng et Christine Marsal10 673 enrolments 31/05/2016

MassiveOpenOnlineCourse

SmallPrivateOnlineCourse

“From MOOCs to SPOCs”, by Armando Fox, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 56 No. 12, Pages 38-40December 2013

Objectives and developments for FUN

Develop new activities to ensure a business model both for the GIP and for its members

• Verified certificates• Reuse of the courses on campus

- Blended learning and flipped classrooms• Investigate life long learning

- Corporate SPOC- White label platforms for specific needs

FUN as a Go-between / facilitator between the economic world and HE institutions • New partnerships with other actors of professional training

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Objectives and developments for FUN

Develop MOOC in cooperation between French universities and their international partners• Strong research cooperation is a mean to develop teaching cooperation • The resulting MOOC will better take into account the local specificities :

pedagogical localization • MOOC used in blended learning

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Thank you for your attention !

XII FORUM BRAFITEC – MONTPELLIER 2016