Recommendations for the design and deployment of MOOCs:

Insights about the MOOC “Digital Education of the Future” deployed in MiríadaX

Carlos Alario-Hoyos, Mar Pérez-Sanagustín, Carlos Delgado-Kloos, Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino

calario@it.uc3m.es

Salamanca, 1st October 2014

Digital Education of the Future Overview

- Duration: 9 weeks - Platform: - Language: Spanish - 5 teachers and TAs (+ 1 facilitator) - Field: Educational technologies

- Module 1: Human Computer Interaction - Module 2: Mobile learning - Module 3: New trends in education

Digital Education of the Future Structure

Structure of a week

Example of video lecture

Built-in social tools

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Profiles

Social engagement

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Design

1. Selection of the platform

To choose the platform based on • Institutional agreements • Target learners

Design

2. Course structure

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To study the platform constraints before creating the course structure and the learning materials To follow a homogeneous structure and to distribute the workload among different teachers To define a flexible assessment structure so that latecomers can join To create an attractive “About Video”

Design 3. Course contents and activities

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To create original video lectures (5-10 minutes) explaining the concepts easily and clearly To choose charismatic teachers as the main actors in video lectures To combine videos of different types and provide guidelines with examples to support teachers

Design

4. Course logistics

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To be aware of the time required for creating and uploading the materials leaving enough time for subtitling and testing To plan a schedule with the availability of teachers and institutional resources, sending regular progress reports To define a “course manager” that supports and coordinates all the stakeholders

Design

5. Accreditation

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To define from the beginning the type of recognition people will get if passing the course

Design

6. Social components

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To promote social learning through different kinds of social tools

Deployment

7. Evolution of the course

To keep a record of problems (and solutions) and share it with the different stakeholders

Deployment

8. Engagement

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To maintain a high activity in social tools To send weekly notifications to the students To detect “leaders” and “trolls” in social tools

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Questions?