sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCsWorkshop

Déborah Arnold (UB, FR)

António Teixeira (UAb, PT)

Maria do Carmo Pinto (UAb, PT)

Darco Jansen (EADTU)

Adeline Bossu (SN, FR)

10 June 2015, Barcelona

sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCs – Workshop

Time scheduled

-30 min presentation -20 min discussion split at topics / tables-10 min feedback from each table -OR exchange on our practices “strengths & weaknesses”, “good practices & difficulties”

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sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCs – Workshop

Presentation :

– ECO project

– Assessment, António Teixeira (UAb, PT), Maria do Carmo Pinto (UAb, PT)

– Darco Jansen, EADTU– Incorporation of new participants with their own specificities, Divina

Frau-Meigs (SN, FR), Adeline Bossu (SN, FR) – Live events, Déborah Arnold (UB, FR)

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Elearning, Communication and Open-data:

Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning

22 PARTNERS – 6 COUNTRIEShttp://ecolearning.eu/

European project funded by European Commission in Competitiveness and innovation framework programme

Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning

• The project will demonstrate the potential of OER and MOOC • to widen access to education and to improve the quality • for lowering or remove technological barriers in learning processes • for users with special needs or at risk of exclusion.

• The expected impact of ECO • create their own online courses and other open educational resources

and distribute them through the open learning platform • ECO pilots will pay special attention to training European teachers. • preparing certified teachers

• Use state-of-the-art technologies• merged MOOCs platforms (based on individual platforms and resources

provided by individual partners in the project), • the combined and cross-border piloting activities in all the hubs involved

in the project.

GOALS

Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning

Steps• Design Pedagogical Model

• Determinate Technical

Functionalities and platforms

• Create one portal

• Create 16 sMOOCs pilots

• Create One MOOC

supporting how to create MOOC

• Run on 3 iterations

• Make creating own MOOC by

participant/group of participants

Continuous Improvement and Quality

Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning

Pedagogical Design sMOOC cMOOC ‘Focus on community and connections’

social ‘learning experience marked by social interactions and participation’Pedagogical approach: connectivism, situated learning, social constructivism

Inclusion + Ubiquitous and mobile + Accessibility (special needs)learner-centred - flexibility - digital inclusion

Open licence policyWide variety of target populations

Diversity of purposes and local, contextual implementations

Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning

FunctionalitiesPeer to peer evaluation

Social network in and out the MOOC Accessibility for special needs

Forum - Group forum Learning pathway

BadgesIntercultural communities

Several LanguagesMicro-blogging Geolocalisation

GamificationCertificationFacilitations

Events online

Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning

An innovative approach

MOOCs platforms federation Decentralised model

Single entry point (unified course catalog, log in and user profile) to a number of different MOOCs platforms (OpenMOOC, edX, weMOOC, LogiAssist, AR Learn, iMOOC).

Around 17.000 users by now and growing…

Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning

One portal - 5 platforms - 6 languageshttps://portal.ecolearning.eu/

16 MOOCs Pilots

Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning

A transversal MOOC

Facilitating the creation of new courses by any teacher involved in ECO

6 languages

10 institutions authors

Goals : •Facilitating the creation of new courses by any teacher involved in ECO •Using ECO partners experiences and practices•Develop social learning with communities, accessibility, social learning and functionalities•This MOOC will encourage participants to participate in ECO project and create their own MOOC

Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning

Project evolution

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3≈10,000 users ≈20,000 users ≈40,000

users

ECO sMOOC pedagogical model

Innovative technological approach: Platforms federation. Plug&join ECO. Scalability!

First edition of sMOOCs

ECO image and diss. strategy

Revision of technological model (Y2-3)

Platform fine-tuning (Y2-3)

sMOOC step by step

Dissemination! Communication! Alliances! Growth to massive (users)

Dissemination! Communication! Alliances!

Viral growth (users and courses)

Exploitation and sustainability

Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning

Project evolution

Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning

Final considerations

• ECO was defined as an extremely ambitious project

• An extremely motivated group of professionals has made it possible.

• ECO’s methodology has been based on a strong self-criticism spirit throughout the whole project in order to reach high quality results and overall project.

sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCsAssessment and Certification

António Teixeira (UAb, PT)

Maria do Carmo Pinto (UAb, PT)

10 June 2015, Barcelona

sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCs – Assessment

Formative assessment with self-correction should be made available (through tests, quizzes, etc.).

This should focus on relevant aspects of the topics being discussed or important elements in the resources provided.

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Participants must also be encouraged and are expected to discuss and give feedback to one another throughout the learning activities.

A regular, more general feedback on the work done each week should be provided by the teacher, based on the information prepared by the support team.

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sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCs – Assessment

Additionally badges can be used. These may be obtained from:• the completion of tasks;• the completion of challenges in the bank of challenges;• the points/status/likes/pluses etc. gained

from reputation systems.

Self-assessment quizzes can also be used as diagnostic, to anticipate relevant content presented in a resource.

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sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCs – Assessment

sMOOCs have well designed peer assessment rubrics and use AI engines for the integration of massive qualitative assessment.

Participants who wish to receive a certificate of completion will have to participate in this process, assessing and grading the work of three other participants, while their own work will be assessed and graded by three different peers.

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sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCs – Certification

The Certificate of Completion is a free, non-formal recognition of the work done in the course.

Items to be assessed as evidence of learning can be:• some of the relevant artifacts produced by participants;• a final project;• an e-portfolio containing a relevant sample of the work done (at least two of the artifacts produced, the badges collected, etc.);• summative tests, either automated or peer-assessed.

The scale used can be either quantitative or qualitative, but the final grade will be the average obtained in the 3 grades received.

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sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCs – Certification

sMOOCs may offer the possibility to obtain formal credits, for a fee. Those credits (ECTS) will be awarded based on an evaluation by a teacher of the work done.

This can be combined with a final, f2f assessment.

If an exam or other types of f2f (or synchronous) summative assessments are used, each element (work in the course and f2f assessment) will count as 50% of the final grade.

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sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCsIncorporation of new participants

with their own specificities

Adeline Bossu, Divina Frau-Meigs10 June 2015, Barcelona

sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCs – INCLUSION

To Integrate and participate in a sMOOC

Inclusion with innovation  

• Participant must feel – Welcome, – At the right place– Concerned– Understood

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sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCs – Inclusion• Welcome in new learning context

– MOOC Introduction, – Identification of MOOC actors (autors, facilitators…)– Get out hierarchy and previous pedagogical modelGet close

• Creation communities– Group creation– Discovery of other participants

=> Sense of community, similarity

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sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCs Welcome + Actions

Proposals and Tools to encourage this feeling and start action-interaction in

– Synchronous and asynchronous way– In new cultures, environnement

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Micro-blogBadgeskarma

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Social network inside and outside

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News and newsletter

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ForumGroup ForumFacilitation

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External tools: Live events online hangout tweet chat