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The case for employability through MOOC participation: affordances of the personal learning environment Su White 2 , Hugh Davis 1 , Manuel Leon 2 , and Kate Dickens 1 1 Centre for Innovation in Technologies and Education, University of Southampton, UK 2 Web and Internet Science, ECS, University of Southampton, UK {hcd, kate.dickens}@soton.ac.uk; {ml4c08,saw}@ecs.soton.ac.uk; Presentation CSEDU 1 st April 2014: Graz, Austria

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Southampton University's insights on the relevance of Personal Learning Environments in MOOCs as employability enhancers.

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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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WAIS & CITE

CITE

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AT SOUTHAMPTON WE’VE DONE MOOCS WITH FUTURELEARN…

Why am I here?

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FL context

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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

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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.”

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PLEs as employability enhacers

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PLEs as activity systems(Buchem et al, 2011)

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Learners’ motivationsDavis et.al. (2014)

Why MOOCs? They are free

Motivations

Young learners (majority between 18-24 years old)

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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

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Planning my future

How do you plan to use knowledge gained in MOOCs?

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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

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