Seminario eMadrid sobre "¿Cómo crear e impartir cursos on-line de calidad?". Hacia la innovación educativa: los MOOCs y SPOCs de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Pedro García Martín, Ruth Cobos Pérez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 11/03/2016.

1. Towards educational innovation:
MOOCs and SPOCS of the
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Pedro García Martín – Pedro.Garcia@uam.es
Ruth Cobos Pérez – Ruth.Cobos@uam.es
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
how to create and deliver quality online courses?

2. Outline
Educational Technologies at UAM
UAMx and our MOOCs
Teaching Innovation Projects and our SPOCs
Our first MOOCs:
MOOC creation
MOOC delivery
Good practice implemented
Developed Components
MOOC: The Spain of Don Quixote
The origin of this course
Teaching materials
Evaluation / MOOC on-campus

3. Educational Technologies at UAM
www.uam.es/uamx

4. ● Teaching Innovation Projects. 2015/2016:
○ 85 projects in total
○ 24 SPOCs (96 Instructors)
Educational Technologies at UAM
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Faculty of Sciences
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters
Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences
Higher Polytechnic School
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education
SPOCs @ UAM

5. ● Specific training for UAM Academics:
○ How to teach in front of a video camera
○ How to create educational resources with specific tools
○ Spanish intellectual property
○ How to manage Studio (open edX)
Educational Technologies courses at UAM

6. ● is an interdisciplinary team to support, encourage and lead the
creation of MOOCs at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)
● Supported by the Vice-Chancellor of Educational Technologies
Presentation of UAMx
There are many different roles in this team:
● Program director: to manage the course creation process
● Legal advice, marketing, multimedia and IT staff: to support the
creation and delivery of the content
● Academics and teaching assistants: to design and deliver the content
● Data Czar: to define and lead the overall research strategy around course
data
http://www.uam.es/uamx

7. Our timeline
February 2015
October 2015
March 2016

8. Delivery Start date Enrolled learners Countries Age average
Android301x 1ª 24 Feb 2015 14.975 115
Spain 35%, Mexico 13%, Colombia 9%
30
2ª 6 Oct 2015 13.906 99
Spain 22%, Mexico 22%, Peru 10%
29
Quijote501x 1ª 24 Feb 2015 3.260 101
Spain 35%, USA 13%, Mexico 7%
36
2ª 6 Oct 2015 1.828 82
Spain 26%, USA 10%, Mexico 10%
33
QuiOrg101x 1ª 24 Feb 2015 4.215 108
Spain 22%, Mexico 16%, Colombia 9%
27
2ª 6 Oct 2015 2.618 72
Mexico 21%, Spain 16%, Colombia 11%
26
3ª 1 Mar 2016 1.639 68
Spain 22%, Mexico 19%, Colombia 13%
26
TxEtj201x 1ª 24 Feb 2015 1.833 86
Spain 26%, Mexico 12%, Colombia 8%
28
2ª 6 Oct 2015 1.429 85
Mexico 18%, Spain 12%, Chile 9%
27

9. Delivery Start date Enrolled learners Countries Age
average
Equidad801x 1ª 1 Mar 2016 6,100 86 distintos
Spain 19%
Mexico 14%
Colombia 12%
31
Idealismo501x 1ª 1 Mar 2016 3,826 86 distintos
Mexico 18%
Spain 17%
Colombia 10%
29
Renal701x 1ª 1 Mar 2016 3,788 78 distintos
Mexico 20%
Spain 17%
Colombia 11%
27
SegAlim201x 1ª 1 Mar 2016 2,974 80 distintos
Spain 29%
Mexico 13%
Peru 9%
30

10. ● MOOC selection:
○ Call for MOOC proposals to all Staff at UAM (Two Calls)
○ Selection by a Steering Committee
● Phases for MOOC creation:
○ Planning
○ Design
○ Content creation
○ Promotion strategies
○ Delivery
○ Data Analysis / Evaluation
MOOC Creation

11. ● Maintaining learners’ engagement
○ Mailing weekly
○ Managing Forums
○ Managing Social Networks
● Monitoring learners’ progress
○ edX Insights
○ Our Tool : Open-DLAs
MOOC Delivery

12. Good practices implemented
●Interactivity
●New components
●Social activities (Forums, Peer-assessment)
●Video
●Short and simple videos (~5min)
●Experimenting with innovative narrative formats:
●“The Golden Age TV News”

13. Developing interactive components
Magnifying glass effect Timeline
Interactive Periodic
Table of ElementsMap component
JSMol (JavaScript viewer for
chemical structures in 3D)
Visor of images in text
Book

14. Developing interactive components
Carousel Areas with extra information
Gear
ADH simulator
Renal simulator
Dialogues

15. MOOC:
The Spain of Don Quixote
Pedro García Martín

16. UAM Exhibition

17. Topic 1
The Spain of
Don Quixote.
Time and space.

18. Topic 7
Don Quixote’s
iconography

19. Example of Teaching Materials: Article

20. Example of Teaching Materials: Picture

21. Example of Teaching Materials: Map

22. Example of Teaching Materials: Exercise

24. The Golden Age TV News
http://youtu.be/axvWSbF0u_I

25. Evaluation of the first Delivery
Second Delivery:
MOOC ON-CAMPUS
“Religion and Culture in Modern Spain”
(XVI - XVII Centuries)

26. THE SPAIN OF DON QUIXOTE … THE END

27. Towards educational innovation:
MOOCs and SPOCS of the
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Pedro García Martín – Pedro.Garcia@uam.es
Ruth Cobos Pérez – Ruth.Cobos@uam.es
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
how to create and deliver quality online courses?