Building startup Europe, one MOOC at a time. MOOCs and OERs for web talent: efficacy, acknowledgement

and fit-for-purposeLaia CanalsOpen University of Catalonia

14:00 Panel session begins - Introductions14:05 Overview of the M4WS project findings

14:20 Certification, completion, and measures of success14:50 What makes an effective MOOC learner?

15:20 Pedagogies for massive open online vocational learning

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Today’s panel Tweet: #webmoocs

The MOOCs for web talent project

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What do we mean by web skills?

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Project activities: desk research

59MOOCs

59MOOCs

105MOOCs

105MOOCs

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Project actitivies: survey

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Survey ran from end February to mid April 2014

Project activities: survey

Entrepreneurs and recruiters perspective

Value given to skills acquired through MOOCs

Value given to skills acquired through MOOCs

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Students perspective

What students want…… that MOOCs don’t deliver just yet

o Quality standardso Massive pedagogieso Acreditation valued in the job market

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MOOC providers perspective

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Conclusions drawn from the survey

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Project activities: webinar

•MOOC accreditation and recognition•July 1st, 2014

bit.ly/MOOCAcreditationbit.ly/MOOCAcreditation

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Project activities: MOOC workshop EC-TEL13

Can MOOCs save Europe’s unemployed youth? September 17, 2014

o Topics discussed: MOOC quality Registration and retention Certification and employability Benefits and costs of providing a MOOC for web skills

o MOOC platform panel FUN, Open Classrooms, Open Course World, and openHPI

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Project activities: final conference

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November 17, 2014

bit.ly/M4WSFinalConferencebit.ly/M4WSFinalConference

The MOOCs for Webtalent Network

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Main Results

o MOOCs are an important means to address web skills shortage as part of a broader ecosystemo MOOCs for web talent need to be created in collaboration between industry, educational providers and MOOC platformso Aspiring web entrepreneurs need hands-on learning experiences, grounded in real-life problemso Employers need mechanisms for validating the quality, efficacy of MOOCs, and the knowledge attained (through formal credit systems, portfolios, or community credits)o There is still a need to raise awareness about the potential of MOOCs amongst web innovators

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Emerging themes

o Growing eco-system of campus, blended, hybrid and open online courses

o Rise in awareness to issues of learning design, evaluation, assessment and quality control

o Importance of accreditation and verification schemes

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• Certification, completion, and measures of success in a MOOC

• What makes an effective MOOC learner?• Pedagogies for massive open online vocational

learning• Certification, completion, and measures of success

Ongoing discussion

Certification, completion &measures of success

MOOCs that allow for personalised learning

Emergence of hybrid MOOCs

Purposefulness of the MOOC according to the

student

MOOCs as ad-hoc professional development

opportunities

Different ways of showing proof of knowledge and

skills acquired

Certification, completion &measures of success in a MOOC

Alfonso Julio

"The first goal of the learner is to complete the MOOC and get practical knowledge, developing skills and competences "

Dawn Alderson

“It is interesting to consider certification, completion, and measures of success in terms of MOOCs, because of the value placed on purpose: – an outcome-led agenda (with

emphasis on attainment) and – a self-directed, process-led

activity (emphasis on achievement).”

Certification, completion &measures of success in a MOOC

"MOOCs aimed at professionals must recognise the attributes of

their learners, ceding some control to the learner to choose

the precise focus of any learning they undertake, while exploiting

the potential of MOOCs and networked learning to bring

learners with similar (not identical) needs together."

Colin Milligan

Tom Staubitz

"From a participant's perspective, I can state that a certificate was not the reason that got me started, but towards the end of a course it was one of the reasons that kept me going."

What makes an effective MOOC learner?

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• Peer learning and teaching • Acquisition of transferable skills• Enhancing skill-sets• Self-regulated learning• Professional development MOOCs markers for success

What makes an effective MOOC learner?

Alfonso Julio

"Should Learners Complete a MOOC at all if their goal is to develop a specific expertise of work or interest?"

Dawn Alderson

“A pedagogical feature of the cMOOC, built within its structure, is in the opportunities afforded by the use of technology, which enable participants to take on the role of teacher and learner with others online; it is in the act of sharing/modelling/demonstrating with, and observing others that connect learning with teaching. ”

Pedagogies for massive open online vocational learning

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• Collaborative learning • Soft skills• MOOCs as perfect vehicles for life-long learning • Third-space learning opportunities• Connecting and creating knowledge http://figshare.com/articles/PL_MOOC_Design_Team_Questions_draft_/907150

Pedagogies for massive open online vocational learning

“The audience are in one space, the teacher is in another space, and there is a third space manifest,

because of the way the video has been made; it mediates for a

conducive learning environment where the audience can make connections in a self-directed manner, encouraging meta-

cognition. "

Dawn Alderson

Tom Staubitz

"MOOCs provided me with the opportunity to keep on learning next to my regular job. Data from our MOOC platform provides evidence that most of our users are in a similar position."

The emergence of new educational ecosystems

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• Career track MOOCs (nano-degrees, liason with recruiters)• Extending traditional education to update skills• Problem solving skills • Transferable skills

Pedagogies for massive open online vocational learning

“But we also know that the best technological solution can't be

more than a surrogate for a face-to-face meeting. Sometimes the second best solution has to be

sufficient because the best solution is just not available. "

"The most important benefits that I took with me from that school have been general problem solving skills and getting to know a couple of fellow learners that I've worked with."

Tom Staubitz

Meeting my friend in South Africa face-to-face is too expensive, so a Skype call has to be good enough, but meeting my friend next-door in our favorite bar is way better. So why would we stop doing that even if there is a disruptive technology that would enable us to do so?

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