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Massive Open Online Courses from a Social Innovations Point of View
Applying SI in the context of an EU Project ….
TEL-Map, has 2 objectives …
Engagement of diverse stakeholders in TEL communities
Alignment of stakeholders for collaborative action (through clustering, discussion, scenario modelling, disagreement management etc)
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Christian Voigt (Centre for Social Innovation) 3
When you don’t find your way and time is running out, you don’t want to find yourself in this street …
How do we find (social) innovation in digital culture, digital education …
Social facts …
the assessment and measurement of the scope and quality of innovation must be based on facts. In the case of commercialized innovations, e.g. a new technology, these are economic facts, whereas in the case of social innovations we need to watch out for social facts, affected or created by new combinations of social practices. (Hochgerner 2011)
Facts ≠ Measurments (factum; ‘that what is done’)
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Four challenges in finding social facts …
1. Differentiation
3. Context
4. Impact
2. Normativity
Alex Kesselring (ZSI)
Massive Open Online Course
MOCCs bring education to thousands of learners for free.
The concept is still fairly immature …
A course from Stanford University attracted more than 200.000 non-credit students (xMOOC)
Several start-ups adopted the concepts Coursera, edX …
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Scarcity and innovation …
Sir John Daniel remarked that ‘the real revolution is that universities with scarcity at the heart of their business models are embracing openness’
c-MOOCs/ connectivism (following Georg Siemens and Stephen Downes),
x-MOOCs (Stanford …
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Prompts / Reasons
Crisis, EU wide cuts in public spending (10 – 30%)
Focus on creativity, transversal skills
Asks for technical / economical innovations (xMOOCs) and pedagogical innovations (cMOOCs)
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Proposals and ideas
This is the stage of idea generation. – Participative, student driven, project based – Extending existing materials to an
audience multiplied by x (multiple choice, artificial intelligence in the background)
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Prototyping
Testing through iteration, and trial and error (pre-existing interests)
Through these processes that measures of success come to be agreed upon
– # of enrolements – # of completions – # of knowledge objects – …
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Sustainability
Purpose: everyday practice / sharpening ideas
Viability: firm, social venture capital, social enterprise or charity, that will carry the innovation forward
– Problematic due to privacy concerns (Access for employers, headhunters …; targeted marketing; textbook promotion)
– New players (publishers, NGOs)
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Scaling
Federations (share costs and infrastructures)
Informal diffusion
Inspiration >> role of universities in today’s society
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Systemic Change
Ultimate goal of social innovation
social movements
business models
laws and regulations
new ways of thinking and doing
… requires many smaller innovations
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Conclusion: Reflexive Practices Traditional orientations become contestable
Frequently revisiting the problem definitions (renewal of common ground) >> everything can be problematised
Continuous problem solving - Solutions ‚in the wild‘ create new problems
„Society“ becomes an area of intervention and innovation – social experimentation
Contact Details
www.slideshare.net/chrvoigt
www.twitter.com/chrvoigt
www.linkedin.com/in/chrvoigt
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