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Exploring new challenges in TELL: LangMOOC &Open EducationEuropa Portal
Dr MARIA A. PERIFANOUPAU Education, Barcelona, SPAIN
Presentation Outline
a) Introductionb) LangMOOC project: background
research and following research steps
c) Open Education Europa portal
Introduction
What is open access?“Open means that anyone can freely access, use, modify, and share for any purpose (subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness).” Opendefinition.org
What is a MOOC?
“A MOOC is a course of study made available over the Internet usually without charge to a very large number of people: anyone who decides to take a MOOC simply logs on to the website and signs up” (Oxford Dictionaries, 2014)
2010
2012
2013
2011
MOOC’s rising
2.8 million
students in March
2013
2014
LangMOOC project: Background research & following research steps
Consortium Action Citizens Partnership (ACP), GR
Sør-Trøndelag University College, HiST, NO
CESIE, IT
Iberica education group (gGmbH), GE
Community Action Dacorum, UK
Research questions
How to design an efficient Language Learning Environment for MOOLCs?
Are there many MOOLC initiatives that could provide a promising Massive Open Interactive Language Learning Environment (MOILLE)?
Research Methodology: STAGES
a) Exploration of current MOOLC initiatives
b) Classification of the MOOLC initiatives according to concrete criteria
c) Evaluation of most representative MOOLC initiatives using the MOILLE framework
d) Analysis of the results & conclusions
Exploration of current MOOLC initiatives1st Stage
Classification of the MOOLC initiatives according to concrete criteria2nd Stage
University/Entity Number of Free / Paid language
Courses Language Certification/ Badges/Official credits Fixed time session cMOOC / xMOOC
MOILLE FRAMEWORK- Massive Open Interactive Language Learning Environment
CONTENT: Authentic educational resources; Use of multimedia/tech; Variety of activities that promote all basic language skills & support cultural awareness.
PEDAGOGY: Communication (peer-peer, student-teacher, open class community); Collaboration (CL) (group projects, forums etc.); Collective intelligence; Autonomy (Autonomous/Self-paced/SL Learning/Reflection); Engagement-Motivation; Playful/Game based learning; Number of instructors.
ASSESSMENT: On going Assessment/ Scaffolding (peer-peer, student-teacher, open, automated) Final Assessment; Evidence-Based improvement (data mining, Analytics); Feedback (comments, reviews).
COMMUNITY: Social Community building as Massive & Open (Social Media – third part tools integration & other tech tools).
TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Max number of participants, Platform’s performance, Security, Usability).
FINANCIAL ISSUES: Profit. Charges for Course or Certification/ Accreditation.
Evaluation of most representative MOOLC initiatives using the MOILLE framework3nd Stage
Analysis of Results & Conclusions4th Stage
Evaluation 16 MOOCs – MOILLEContent
6/16 MOOLC initiatives offer authentic educational resources in a high level
11/16 use multimedia tools
3/16 offer a variety of activities that promote the basic language skills & support cultural awareness
Evaluation 16 MOOCs – MOILLEPedagogy
5/16 MOOLC initiatives support the various types of communication (peer-peer, student-teacher, open class community) in a high level
1/16 promote collaboration, (group projects, forums etc.) or collective intelligence in a high degree
15/16 support very much the autonomous, self-paced & self-regulated learning, learner’s reflection
6/16 support learners’ engagement and motivation None of them offers game based activities of high
degree 2/16 provide many instructors for a course
Evaluation 16 MOOCs – MOILLEAssessment
5/16 MOOLC initiatives provide various types of assessment (peer-peer, student-teacher, open, automated)
7/16 provide an official final assessment, 4/16 show learners’ performance evolution (data
mining, analytics) 6/16 give the possibility to participants to
provide feedback of various types (comments, reviews)
Evaluation 16 MOOCs – MOILLECommunity building
5/16 MOOLC initiatives offer a big variety of social media tools or other technologies in order to build a Social Language Learning Community
Evaluation 16 MOOCs – MOILLETechnical Infrastructure
12/16 MOOLC initiatives can accept a massive number of participants
offer usability have good technical performance provide high security
Evaluation 16 MOOCs – MOILLEFinancial issues
none of the explored MOOLC initiatives require any high charges
except for: certification or accreditation
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16 MOOC platforms that offer more than 50 free Language Learning courses.
<1/2 English Language MOOCs
Great interest for other languages like Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese etc. (Perifanou & Economides, 2014).
Examples: German Language MOOC
won the First Prize for the Best MOOC in the Miriada X platform (Castrillo, 2013)
“I learn” platform (‘Aprendo’/UNED)
2 English courses 78.690 1 German 22.438 students (Read & Rodrigo, 2013).
Conclusions (1)
Conclusions (2)
“Are there many MOOLC initiatives that could provide a promising Massive Open Interactive Language Learning Environment (MOILLE)”?
NO, just few good examples.
Positive aspects:
Many MOOLCs
are still free have generally good
infrastructureoffer certification
Conclusions (3)
ISSUES
Pedagogical aspect of MOOLCs (no highly interactive, no FL community, no building language skills collectively)
Time cost for educators
Big dropout rate (Lack of teachers’ support ,different students’ intentions)
Suggestions
Create more connectivist MOOLCs
Create highly interactive Language Learning Environments
Keep high students’ degree of motivation & self-direction
OPEN EDUCATION EUROPA PORTAL
www.openeducationeuropa.eu
BlogEventsArticlesNewsEU projectsStart a group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/EdDigEraConference/
Twitter hashtags: #EdDigEra #openEduEU
RESOURSES (Photo/diagram)
o http://elearninginfographics.com/european-moocs-infographic/#sthash.wCL5G0XD.qjtu
o http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/ambitp/2013/05/22/moocs-state-of-the-art
o http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/o http://www.edutopia.orgo http://open-it-lab.com/open-content/o http://edutechdebate.org/oer-and-digital-divid
e/do-open-educational-resources-actually-increase-the-digital-divide/
References & ResourcesPerifanou M. & Economides A. (2014). MOOCs for Language Learning: An effort to explore and evaluate the first practices. In Proceedings of the INTED2014 conference held in Valencia, Spain 8-12 March 2014. Full-text Perifanou M. (2014). How to design and evaluate a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for Language Learning.In Proceedings of the eLSE14 conference held in Buchurest, Romania, 24-25 April 2014.
o http://elearninginfographics.com/european-moocs-infographic/#sthash.wCL5G0XD.qjtu
o http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/ambitp/2013/05/22/moocs-state-of-the-art
o http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/o http://www.edutopia.orgo http://open-it-lab.com/open-content/o http://edutechdebate.org/oer-and-digital-divide/do-open-edu
cational-resources-actually-increase-the-digital-divide/
