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Eamon Costello
HOME Project
EDEN June 09 2015
Building an open knowledge
network on joint European
MOOCs offerings
WP6: Building an open knowledge network
on joint European MOOCs offerings
• Build up a sustainable open knowledge network for these types of
MOOCs which is open to the whole world.
• Create guidelines and the policy incentives on a local, national and
European level for an open knowledge network in MOOC offerings
Expert Group Topics
• MOOC Readiness – Drivers => Platform Selection Checklist
• European MOOC Discourses – Media analysis and implications for
policy
MOOC Readiness – Platform Selection
Background
–Platform selection (and migration)
–Community activities:
–"Mapping The European MOOC Territory“ Conference, Porto Nov 2014
–National MOOC Symposium, 01-MAY-15 - 02-MAY-15, Dublin, Ireland
MOOC Readiness – Platform Selection
–Related Work:
• ECO Project – MOOC Platform Checklist
http://ecolearning.eu/checklistmoocplatform/
•Spyropoulou, N., Pierrakeas, C., & Kameas, A. (2014). CREATING MOOC
GUIDELINES BASED ON BEST PRACTICES. EDULEARN14
Proceedings, 6981-6990.
A Simple Guide to Navigating the MOOC Muddle - WICHE Cooperative for
Educational Technologies http://wcet.wiche.edu/learn/talking-points/moocs
–Platform selection (and migration)
•Defining drivers and mapping them to options.
–Brown et. Al. (forthcoming) “A strategic response to MOOCs: How one
European university is approaching the challenge“ International Review of
Research in Distributed Learning
MOOC Readiness – Platform Selection
–A key idea: What is your institutional identity? (Williams van Rooij,
2011; Costello, 2014)
Williams van Rooij, S. (2011). Higher education sub-cultures and open source adoption. Computers &
Education, 57(1), 1171-1183.
Costello E. (2014) Opening up to open source: looking at how Moodle was adopted in higher
education.Open Learning: The Journal Of Open And Distance Learning, 28, 3, pp187-200.
MOOC Readiness – Platform Selection
What is a University?
“A set of warring departmental fiefdoms held together by a common
concern about parking” – Anonymous
Expressions of Interest
• Join us:
–What are your institutional drivers?
–Case Studies are lacking in this area in the literature
–Case studies of platform specific implementations
European MOOC Discourses
• MOOCs in the Popular Media
• Media discourse driving policy and influencing policy makers
• Protocol developed to enable cross-country comparison of
MOOC coverage in the news media
• The Washington Post in 1999: "Blackboard Chalks Up a
Breakthrough; Its Educational Software Lets Colleges Put Classes
on the Internet.”
• “we can't move forward, until we reconcile where we've been
before”
Audrey Watters
• Methodology
• Media Sources
• Discourse Analysis Protocol
- 20 items
- Google form
- Descriptive
- Interpretative
3. What is the Irish story so far?
About the Study
Year – 2011 = 1 | 2012 = 1 | 2013 = 24 | 2014 = 39 | 2015
Media Publications - Breakdown by media source | Irish Times |
Type of Article – Descriptive | Investigative
Content of Story – Local | International (US | UK | European | Other)
Average Word Length – Total = X | 2011 = X | 2012 = X | 2013 = X | 2014 = X | 2015 = X
Stance Adopted - Positive | Neutral | Negative
Likely Disruption - Revolution | Evolution | Minimal | Sceptical | None | Not Stated
Major Focus – Platform | Pedagogy | Both | Other
Supporting Evidence for Assumptions – Yes | No
Platform – Alison | Coursera | Futurelearn | Tata System | Other
MOOCS in Irish Media: Discourse Analysis Protocol
Major Drivers – Fear of Missing Out | Institutional Branding | Increase Student Recruitment | Extend Access | Reduce Costs |
Generate Revenue | Unbundling of Services | Innovation | Curriculum Renewal | Supporting Student Readiness | Promote
Research on New Models of Teaching | None
Problem of Completion Rates – Yes | No
Reference to Learning Analytics – Yes | No
Explicit Implication for Policy Makers – Yes | No
Change Perspective – In Change (Reactive) | For Change (Proactive) | None
Dominant Discourse – Reproduction | Re-schooling | De-schooling | Re-conception
Type of MOOC – cMOOC | xMOOC | Other
Name of Institution -
Institutional Ranking – Elite | Non Elite | Other
Education Level – Higher Education | Post Secondary | School
MOOCS in Irish Media: Discourse Analysis Protocol
Total of 77 publications
Completed: Initial analysis of Irish media coverage of the
MOOC phenomenon.
Required: Cross-country comparisons
Facilitated by using the tools and protocols we have
developed
Contact us [email protected]
Go raibh maith agaibh.
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