Open collaborative platforms, education and research: MOOCs, ILDE Plenary session: Global partnership for development. The role of academia in empowering participatory and collaborative action SIS2016, 1st Conference on Social Impact of Science, Barcelona, July 27, 2016 https://daviniahl.wordpress.com/

1. SIS2016, 1st
Conference on Social Impact of Science, Barcelona July 27, 2016
Plenary session: Global partnership for development.
The role of academia in empowering participatory and collaborative action
Open collaborative platforms, education and research: MOOCs, ILDE

2. … as research question
… as research method
… as instrument for research impact
under-recognized?
… and other challenges
The role of academia in empowering participatory and collaborative action
Social Impact of Science
Open collaborative platforms, education and research

3. Open collaborative platforms, education and research
Example 1: MOOCs
social impact: reaching more and more diverse learners
http://createquity.com/2013/09/moocs-and-the-future-of-arts-education-2/
EDUCON 2013

4. … as research question
… as research method
… as instrument for research impact
Open collaborative platforms, education and research
Example 1: MOOCs
social impact: reaching more and more diverse learners
New questions:
patterns of engagement
retention rates…
New contexts of experimentation:
intervention at large scale setting
access to more “users”
Reaching broad and larger audience
Service to direct users

5. Open collaborative platforms, education and research
Example 2: Integrated Learning Design Environment
social impact: sharing and co-design for innovative teaching
http://ilde.upf.edu/about/
open and open source
Several communities
(20-400 participants,
over 4K designs)

6. … as research question
… as research method
… as instrument for research impact
Open collaborative platforms, education and research
Example 2: Integrated Learning Design Environment
social impact: sharing and co-design for innovative teaching
Open and open source
more contexts
more data
 patterns of collaboration
 mechanisms to support co-design
 Characteristics, popularity and
impact of designs
ECTEL 2014
Reaching broad and larger audience
Service to direct users

7. Reaching broad and larger audience
Service to direct users
… as research question
… as research method
… as instrument for research impact
under-recognized
… and other challenges
potential to feed traditional
scholarly indicators
the emerging principle of of research and innovation RRI
(societal/public engagement, gender equality, open access,
science education, ethics and governance in R&I)
tension between role of experts and participants / citizens
biases: minorities, less educated people
Open collaborative platforms, education and research
The role of academia in empowering participatory and collaborative action

8. PROJECTS:
ducational Data Science: Data-Driven Support for Learning Design, MdM https://portal.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/projects
oT: Communities of teaching as a data-informed design science and contextualized practice, RecerCaixa #CoTprojectRC/
ESET, Reformulating scalable educational ecosystems offering technological innovations, MEC http://reset.gast.it.uc3m.es/
EIRRI, Higher Education Institutions and Responsible Research and Innovation, H2020, http://heirri.eu/