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Bootcamp EMMA MOOC
Assessment for learning in practice
Olga Firssova, Francis Brouns
EDEN conference
Re-imagining Learning Environments
15 June 2016 Budapest, Hungary
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Programme
• Introduction into EMMA project
• Enrolling in the AfL MOOC
• Introduction to AfL
• Technology to combat cheating. How
does it match with assessment?
• Assessing assessment for learning

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Further information
• Olga Firssova, olga.firssova@ou.nl
• Francis Brouns, francis.brouns@ou.nl
• Presentations: dspace.ou.nl

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MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses
European universities
Multiple languages
Cross-cultural and multi-lingual learning
EMMA offers:

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http://europeanmoocs.eu
More information
@EUmoocs
facebook.com/EUmoocs

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EMMA platform
• Assessment for learning in practice MOOC

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Introduction EMMA platform
• New MOOC authoring and learning
environment
• MOOC catalog
• Open educational learning resources
• Multiple languages and subtitles
• Interaction with other learners
• Learning analytics progress monitor
• Personal learning environment

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Enrol in AfL MOOC
• http://platform.europeanmoocs.eu
• Two-step registration process
• Register: Create user account
• Enrol in MOOC of choice

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Languages in EMMA
• Courses in Italian, Spanish, Estonian, English,
French, Dutch, Portuguese
• Course content translated into English,
Spanish, Italian
• Video subtitling and translated into English
• Multilingual user interface EMMA platform

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Register at EMMA
• http://platform.europeanmoocs.eu

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• Fill in registration
• Confirmation e-mail and activate

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Enrol
• Find your MOOC
http://platform.europeanmoocs.eu
• Enrol

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Course structure
• Lesson, unit, assignment

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Navigation
• Lesson/unit structure
• Next, previous
• Unit/assignment button

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Communication
• Blog
• Conversations
• Closed Facebook group
• Twitter #AfLMOOC

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Profile

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Selecting language
• Designed in Dutch
• Course content in English
• User interface in English
• Dutch and English subtitling

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Choose language in course

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AfLMOOC on EMMA

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Formative assessment

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• things you do,
• you don’t do (yet) or
• you know little about
in relation to
assessment for
learning

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• things you do,
• you don’t do (yet) or
• you know little about
in relation to
assessment for
learning
Discuss with your neighbour/group:
What are your top three items in each category?

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Things you do

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Things you do not do (yet)

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Things you know little about

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• How do you define AfL?
• What are the AfL
methods?
• Can you use summative
tests as AfL?
Discuss with your neighbour/group:
What AfL methods do you know (and use)?

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https://answergarden.ch/306048
• What are the AfL methods?
• Can you use summative
tests as AfL?

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AfLMOOC on EMMA

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How is (formative) assessment integrated in MOOC
design?

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Analyse lesson 3 of this MOOC with the help of a
template (available in Study materials)

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• What is your take on cheating? Do you have any experience with
it? What preference do you have when it comes to the
prevention – detection span?
• Would you be interested in using technology to prevent and/or
detect cheating? Why would you be or why not?
• What is in your opinion the impact of solutions that TeSLA will
provide for formative assessment?

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AfLMOOC: what next?

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Further information
• Olga Firssova, olga.firssova@ou.nl
• Francis Brouns, francis.brouns@ou.nl
• Presentations: dspace.ou.nl

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• an hosting service for 17 – 20 existing MOOCs which will
be made available in 2 or more languages
• providing support to other potential MOOC providers in
order to help them to set up and publish their own
MOOCs on EMMA
EMMA is:

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• Easy access to MOOCs from across Europe
• Transcription and translation services to give access to
courses in many languages
• Opportunities to explore Europe’s rich cultural diversity
by reviewing similar topics from different course
providers
• Ability to create personalised learning paths
What’s in it for students?

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Self-assessment
• Simple self-assessment

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Progress monitor

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Personal learning environment
• Toolbox
• Coursebook
• Virtual classroom integration:
– EMMA blog, twitter, Facebook, Google+, Google
Drive, Youtube, Vimeo, Instagram, Tumblr, Wiki,
Wordpress

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EMMA Toolbox and Coursebook
• Personalise your learning experience on
EMMA
• How to use the toolbox?
• Toolbox and Saved Elements
• EMMA A-Z Tutorial

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EMMA Toolbox

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View saved elements