moocs employability through personal learning environments

The case for employability through MOOC participation: affordances of the personal

learning environment

Su White2, Hugh Davis1, Manuel Leon2, and Kate Dickens1

1Centre for Innovation in Technologies and Education, University of

Southampton, UK

2Web and Internet Science, ECS, University of Southampton, UK

{hcd, kate.dickens}@soton.ac.uk; {ml4c08,saw}@ecs.soton.ac.uk;

Presentation CSEDU 1st April 2014: Graz, Austria

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AT SOUTHAMPTON WE’VE DONE MOOCS WITH FUTURELEARN…

Why am I here?

FL context

Our MOOC portfolio

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Our MOOC portfolio

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. Retail understood that this connected them to a potential customer base much more broadly. The whole phenomenon of internet shopping that arose from that, where the fundamental kind of activity was transaction-based. Buying, purchasing, selling.

It's just different. There's plenty of jobs in terms of working with the companies that are doing retail on the Web. So the High Street has gone online, and in a sense it's like, get over it.

Sir Nigel Shadbolt / Dame Wendy Hall

WebSci MOOC: seeing the big picture

MOOCs and Employability:Willets’ views (Parr, 2014)

“I think we will see…the rise of the de facto accredited Mooc…a Mooc that has some currency in the jobs market,”

“If you look at Moocs on their own, you don’t get the full significance of what is happening…[to] significantly change education.”

PLEs as employability enhacers

PLEs as activity systems(Buchem et al, 2011)

Learners’ motivationsDavis et.al. (2014)

Why MOOCs? They are free

Motivations

Young learners (majority between 18-24 years old)

What learners value

• Free and open

• Convenience: any time any place

• Update knowledge, enhance CV

• Build a learning community

• Satisfy interest/ edutainment

• Learning with the best

• Professional development/lifelong learning

Planning my future

How do you plan to use knowledge gained in MOOCs?

Affordances to enhance employability through MOOC participation

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ReferencesBuchem, I., Attwell, G. & Torres, R., 2011. Understanding Personal Learning Environments: Literature review and synthesis through the Activity Theory lens. In The PLE Conference 2011. pp. 1–33. Available at: http://journal.webscience.org/658/.

Davis, H. et al., 2014. MOOCs for Universities and Learners An analysis of motivating factors. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education. Barcelona. Available at: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/363714/1/DavisEtAl2014MOOCsCSEDUFinal.pdf.

Parr, C. (2014) Employers could turn to bespoke Moocs, Willetts says. Times Higher Education 22 May 2014

Manuel LeonWeb and Internet Science, ECSUniversity of SouthamptonSO17 1BJ, UK ml4c08@ecs.soton.ac.uk @mleonurr http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/ml4c08/