Third International Conference of the Euro -Mediterranean Association for Sustainable Development in Egypt (EMASDE ). How MOOC could be an help for mass education in Egypt.

1. MOOC, digital learning…:
an opportunity for Egypt!
Yves Epelboin
Professor Emeritus
UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, Paris
Past CIO for teaching and Learning
Yves.Epelboin@impmc.upmc.fr
Y. Epelboin UPMC-Sorbonne Universités 3rd Int. Conf. Achieving sustainable development in Egypt 2020 Genève 13/09/2014

2. Agenda
• The context
• The tools
• A new era
•A chance for Egypt
•It already started
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3. Information technology
• Irreversible impact on all societies and countries
– Unlimited access to a huge amount of information (true or
false)
– A turmoil in the process of delivering knowledge and
information
– A revolution in the acts of learning and teaching
• Mandatory to acquire new skills for the next
generation
– For the daily work
– Public and private lifes
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4. Information technology and Internet
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5. Learning, teaching and the digital world
• Learning: acquisition of knowledge and skills
through experience and study
• Teaching: act of showing and explaining how to do,
how to understand
• Digital world: tools, media & methods to learn and
to teach
• Started in the 90’s with the web (hypertext) and the
PC
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Learning Management System
Tool able to provide the functions of a
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7. LMS in the world
LMS % world
Moodle 44.1 Open source
Blackboard 37.3
Desire2Learn 7.9
Sakai 6.1 Open source
Source: ListEdTech.com http://listedtech.com/tags/lms
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9. Massive Open Online Course
• Massive: large number of participants
– Definition of large?
• Depending on the subject
• Lurkers, true participants and certification
• Open:
– No prerequisite but must register
– Not Open Source
• Online
– More than contents: self contained
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10. Massive distance teaching: a short history
• 1972: Open University (UK)
• 2000: Learning Management Systems (LMS)
• 2002: Open Educational Resources (OER)
• 2008: George Siemens “all learners, all teachers”
The connectivist MOOC, cMOOC
• 2011: S. Thrun, Stanford
xMOOC and transmissive MOOC
• 2012: Coursera, edX…
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11. Growth of MOOCs
https://www.edsurge.com/n/2013-12-22-moocs-in-2013-breaking-down-the-numbers
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12. Provider distribution
https://www.edsurge.com/n/2013-12-22-moocs-in-2013-breaking-down-the-numbers
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13. Mass education: a priority for the 21st century
• In Africa and Asia one should
open one university every day!
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14. Internet accessibility
Mobile devices are becoming
available everywhere
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15. MOOC: a chance for Egypt
• In Egypt a young population to
educate
– + 2%/year
– Median age: 24 years
• The only solution: massive teaching
BUT…
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16. A concept to be adapted to Egypt
• Mix face-to-face &
distance learning
• Distance learning
and local tutors
• Face-to-face
interchanges among
students:
local “houses of
MOOCs”
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17. Ensure the quality of teaching
• Control of pre-requisites for students
• Educate educators and tutors
• Train teachers in the use of modern technology
• Examinations and grades
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18. A concept to adapt: education & culture
• Need to adapt to the national culture
– The way to learn, the method to teach must be adapted
to the nation culture and history
– International standardization is a danger
MOOCs must be build with the participation of Egyptian
Academics
The organization must be adapted to the Egyptian life and
culture
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19. An important investment
• Course scenario renewed
• New documents and OER
• Massive use of short videos (chunks 5-7 up to 15 mn)
• Need of a local organization
to sustain the MOOCs
A MOOC is a complex
team project
A MOOC is a complex
team project
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20. Cost of a MOOC
• 8 weeks course : 500 h of skilled staff
– Teachers
– Pedagogical support staff
– Technical support staff
• Video studios
• A network of servers to deliver the courses
• Houses of MOOCs
http://www.slideshare.net/YvesEpelboin/mooc-a-european-perspective
http://www.eunis.org/download/2014/papers/eunis2014_submission_3.pdf
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21. What to do?
• Adapted MOOCs and distance learning are the
only solution to solve the need to educate masses
of young people
Solutions must be adapted to the
Egyptian society and culture
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22. It already started
• November 2013:Edraak, an education initiative of
the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and
Development (QRF)
• July 2014: Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Labor
announced the launch of an open-platform
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) portal
designed to bridge the gap between education
and employment in Saudi Arabia and throughout
the Arab world
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23. What next
• Work together to build a
project for Egypt
– Available forces (academics,
support…)
– Cost estimates
– Teaching priorities
• Funding?
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24. Discussion
Yves.Epelboin@impmc.upmc.fr
Y. Epelboin UPMC-Sorbonne Universités 3rd Int. Conf. Achieving sustainable development in Egypt 2020 Genève 13/09/2014