do we need a shared european mooc platform?

HOMEMapping The European MOOC Territory

TIAGO SANTOSISCTE-IUL

[email protected]

CARLOS COSTAISCTE-IUL

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MANUELA APARÍCIOISCTE-IUL

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DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?


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DENMARK

FINLAND

5

FRANCE

GERMANY

87

IRELAND

3

ITALY

12

LITHUANIA

1

ESTONIA

1

NETHERLANDS

28

BELGIUM

12 62

4

218

903

NORWAY

1 SWEDEN

4

PORTUGAL

3

RUSSIA

18

SLOVAKIA

1

SPAIN

25622

TURKEY

4CYPRUS

1

770EUROPEAN MOOCs

DISTRIBUTION OF

MOOCs PER COUNTRY

68

MOOCs starting in September

MOOCs in our database

EUROPEAN MOOCs SCOREBOARD

SOURCES OF INFORMATIONThe MOOCs included in these infographics were listed on the websites cited below. The courses had varying statuses: some were starting soon and some were ongoing.

While most of the information concerns MOOCs from European institutions, additional research on non-EU MOOCs was conducted so as to provide a reliable basis for comparison.

EUROPEAN SOURCESEuropean Higher Education Institutions at the Open Education Europa portal, Alison, First Business MOOC, FUN, FutureLearn, Iversity, Miriada X, Open Course World, Unow, UnX, Océan.

OTHER SOURCESCoursera, EDX, Canvas, CnMOOC, CourseSites, Edraak, Novoed, Standford University, P2PU, Open learning, Open2-Study, Education MongoDB, Janux, JMOOC, High Tech High, Complexity Explorer, Rwaq, OER University, Google, Kaikeba, REL2014, Udemy.

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SWITZERLAND

41

UK

174201

DISTRIBUTION OFMOOCs BY SUBJECT MOOCs GROWTH RATEOF EUROPEAN versus NON-EUROPEAN

EUROPE

NON-EUROPEAN

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

710

880

1050

1200

1400

1600

1800

2000

2200

2400

2600

2800

3000

3200

3400

APRIL MAY JUNE JULY

458510

570

597 672742

770

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MOOCs

AUSTRIA

7

AUGUST SEPTEMBER

2230

2457

26252702

3036

3246

1

12

3

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FRAGMENTATION

European initiatives have been isolated and fragmented

The European Commission


A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM

The collaboration of (pan-)European HEI in the development of new educational solutions which could otherwise be out of reach if designed by each institution on its own


ADVANTAGES

ECONOMIES OF SCALE

Economies of scale that bring down the cost of development of didactical models and educational materials


ADVANTAGES

SHARED SERVICES

Aggregate the contributes of the actual initiatives and provide the scaffold for a series of shared services like registration, single sign-on, LMS integration and partner agreements on badge/credit transfer and/or networked curricula


ADVANTAGES

LEARNING ANALYTICS

The scale of the platform could generate enough information about learner’s activity that would give rise to personalised learning environments that adapt to the learner’s needs in order to secure completion


ADVANTAGES

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE A common open source software infrastructure would facilitate the implementation and maintenance as well as its continuous improvement


ADVANTAGES

OER

Open licensing is making it easier to share the effort involved in developing educational resources and it may enable new institutions to start open and distance learning programmes more easily and with less initial cost


ADVANTAGES

OPENUPED QUALITY LABEL

The use of a shared quality label, specifically tailored to e-learning, can assure an educational experience that can bridge informal and formal learning, providing recognition for students’ achievements


ADVANTAGES

EUROPEAN LEARNER PROFILE

A profile to aggregate student's academic achievements and provide integration with career services and professional orientated social networking platforms like LinkedIn


ADVANTAGES

ACCESSIBILITY

For students that have geographical or economic limitations, or even health disabilities, have the possibility to experience foreign cultures through the contact with international learning communities


BARRIERS

ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION

It is necessary to develop a regulatory framework to allow the unbundling of course design, provision and certification, and OER assessment to happen on a credit-equivalence basis by independent providers

A major hurdle to the integration of open learning with formal learning due to the lack of international accreditation and assessment services


BARRIERS

RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING (RPL)

Initiatives to share resources in the RPL should be piloted and deployed, so that the equivalent learning based on the same resources does not need to be checked on multiple occasions

Already in innovative practice in many institutions but usually has deeply idiosyncratic, labor-intensive and not particularly cost-effective or scalable institutional policies


BARRIERS

OER ADOPTION

There must be a strong base of support within institutions – both in terms of leadership and resources, and an existing culture of openness, including policies and practices around the creation and use of OER

Universities are still reticent to reuse openly licensed courses and the lack of availability of committed staff members and support from senior management


BARRIERS

ADMINISTRATION

Again, there must be a strong base of support within institutions, governments and European Commission

Administrative and bureaucratic difficulties of managing a project with a large number and variety of stakeholders


MOOCsw/ Open Source Software & OER

INSTITUTIONS

European Learner Profilew/ LinkedIn and other social network integration, badges, etc.

EUROPEAN SHARED MOOC PLATFORM

OpenupEd Quality Label

Course creationStudent credits

Networked curricula

Shared services(registration, single sign-on, etc.)

Learning analytics

Student curricula


MOOCsw/ Open Source Software & OER

INSTITUTIONS

European Learner Profilew/ LinkedIn and other social network integration, badges, etc.

EUROPEAN SHARED MOOC PLATFORM BARRIERS

OpenupEd Quality Label

Course creationStudent credits

Networked curricula

Shared services(registration, single sign-on, etc.)

Learning analytics

Student curricula

Recognition of prior learning

OER adoption

Assessment & Accreditation

OBRIGADO!

HOMEMapping The European MOOC Territory

TIAGO SANTOSISCTE-IUL

[email protected]@tiagomssantos

CARLOS COSTAISCTE-IUL

[email protected] @carlosjcosta

MANUELA APARÍCIOISCTE-IUL

[email protected] @ManuelaAparicio