1. Lessons learned from the
European eMOOCs 2014 Stakeholders
Summit
EBBA OSSIANNILSSON, LUND UNIVERSITY SWEDEN
EFQUEL/LINQ CONFERENCE
CRETE 7-9 MAY 2014
3. Scope of the eMOOCs Summit
• Policy
• Experiences
• Research
• Business plans
Current trends
What is a MOOC? How
does it work? Why offer a
MOOC? What is the
MOOC hype about? Are
there downsides? Which
players and business
models are involved? How
do you plan, produce, and
run a MOOC?
6. What does EC mean with
Opening up education?
Opening up education means bringing
the digital revolution into education.
Digital technologies allow all
individuals to learn, anywhere,
anytime, through any device, with the
support of anyone
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7. EC Recommendations for Higher
Education Opening up Education
review their organisational strategies
exploit the potential of Massive Open Online
Courses (MOOCs)
stimulate innovative learning practices such as
blended learning
equip teachers with high digital competences
equip learners with digital skills
think about how to validate and recognise learner’s
achievements in online education
make high quality Open Education Resources (OER)
visible and accessible
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11. MOOC - Like reading a newspaper- go
for the headings and the bold
text/Downes
S Downes – Like reading a newspaper
(21 March 2014)
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14. Main message Xavier Prats-Monne of
the EC
“What can
MOOCs do?” is
not relevant any
longer; rather, we
have to ask
"What should
MOOCs do?”
Will affect higher
education and that the
traditional educational
map must be redrawn
with other structures,
colors, models,
pedagogy, organization,
management
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15. Policy track
Who should be
involved in their
design and delivery?
What are the
opportunities in
terms of outreach,
knowledge transfer,
and capacity-building
in developing
countries?
What are the main
challenges higher-education
institutions are facing?
What should the level of
implementation be?
Should there be a national or
European strategy for
MOOCs?
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16. Policy track
Platforms and portals
Partnerships,
networks, and
associations
Initiatives fostering
the use of MOOCs
across academic
communities to
enhance learning and
teaching
Curriculum design,
assessments
Quality assurance,
accreditation policies,
Certification
Capasapacity-building,
collaboration with developing
countries, intellectual
property, and data ownership
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17. Massive target group
Mixing groups
Learning across contexts
Support self-organization
Declare whats in it
Peer to peer pedagogy
MOOCs support choice based
learning
MOOC.EFQUEL.ORG
MOOC Quality Project:
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18. Openess to learners
Digital openness
Learner centred
Independent learning
Media supported learning
Quality focus
Spectrum of diversity
OpenupEd label
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19. Experience track
Selection of MOOCs,
Production,
Costs, processes, and pitfalls
Incentives, motivations for teachers
and learners
Pedagogical development and
support,
Feedback from students
Integration with existing e-learning
initiatives and LMS.
Learning analytics in relation to MOOC
data, such as dropout rates, student
demographics, popular activities, and
success rates,
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20. Experience track
Lifelong learning
Remediation
Bachelor and master's courses
New markets
Marketing
On-campus students
Learning design
Innovation
Plagiarism
Deployment
Flipped classroom
Gamification
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21. Research track
Evaluation of MOOCs
Learning design
Learning analytics
Technological aspects
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22. Business plans
More questions
than answers…
….there is a need to rethink
the entire educational sector,
both nationally and globally,
…and a need for glocalisation
(globalization and
localizastion) Xavier Prats
Monné of the EC
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24. MOOC- WHY?
• Teaser
• Branding
• Public funding
• Goodwill/Common good
• Entrepreneurship
• Democracy
• Globalisation
• Ranking
• Recruitment
• CoP
• PLE
Different business models
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25. Plethora of new terms…
• SPOCS (small private online
courses)
• NOOCs (national open online
courses)
• SOOCs and BOOCs (small and
large open online courses)
• COOCs (MOOCs for corporate
training)
• VOOCs (MOOCs for vocational
training)
• pMOOCs (project-based MOOCS),
and DOOCs (open and
collaborative exchange, based on
a special theme)
• MOOCs have lit a fire that will not
soon go out!
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