2013 03-14 (educon2013) emadrid upm ocw-s enablers for building sustainable open education evolving ocw mooc

1. OCW-S: enablers for building
sustainable Open Education
•Edmundo Tovar (edmundo.tovar@upm.es )
•Nelson Piedra
•Ana Dimovska
•Janeth Chicaiza
•Berlin, March 14tth , 2013
•GRUPO UPM GICAC

2. “Frontiers in Education Conference” FIE 2012

3. WHY OER?
• Do we really have an alternative?
– Sir John Daniels, former President of the
Commonwealth of Learning 2012:
– “First, UNESCO’s 2009 World Conference on Higher Education identified
rapidly increasing demand as the major trend because nearly one-third of the
world’s population (29.3%) is under the age of 15.
– Today there are 165 million people enrolled in tertiary education.
Projections suggest that participation will peak at 263 million in 2025.
Accommodating the additional 98 million students would require
more than four major campus universities (30,000 students) to open
every week for the next fifteen years. This suggests that alternative
models of provision will be needed.”
Source: http://www.col.org/resources/speeches/2012presentations/Pages/2012-04-12.aspx

4. OPEN EDUCATION IS EVOLVING AS WE
WANT?
• MOOCs are a progression of the kind of open
education ideals suggested by open
educational resources.
• Our proposal OCW-S
– Creation of open massive courses reusing and adapting
open educational resources
– Generation of recommendations for personal learning
paths from the analysis of usage dat
– Interaction and enrichment of OCW courses resources that
are posted on social networks like Twitter

5. What is a MOOC?
Dave Cormier

6. NOT ALL THE MOOCS ARE EQUAL
Lisa Lane : http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/2012/08/three-kinds-of-moocs/

7. CMOOC VS. XMOOC
Alan Levine: http://cogdogblog.com/2012/09/21/just-ds106/

8. Course Approximately 200 online courses.
Students Approximately 1.5 million students enrolled.
Unofficial Certification.
Some instructors offer signed certificates of
Credential
completion, but it is not official university
certification.
Short video lectures and presentations, as well as
Experience such additional elements as online quizzes and
interactive discussion forums.
Peer-reviewed assessments of quizzes,
Assessment
homeworks, problem sets.
Contact with
professor
None
Social Online forums, study groups, and meet ups
Interaction organized by students.
Online and free of charge. Resources must not be
Availability of
resources
copied, reproduced, distributed, published, nor
modified.
Credits Not offered.

9. Course 18
Students ~ 160.000
Credential An unofficial certificate signed by instructors.
Experience Short videos, quizzes feedback.
Software grades tests, problem sets,
Assessment programming assignment with automatic
grading system.
Contact with
professor
None
Social Online forums and study groups, meet-ups
Interaction organized by students in over 450 cities.
Availability of
resources
Open-licensed and free of charge.
Credits None

10. Course 9 online courses.
Students Approximately 1 million students enrolled.
Official Certificate of completion. Certificates are
issued by edX under the name of the university from
Credential
where the course originated, i.e. HarvardX, MITx or
BerkeleyX.
Experience edX open source, videos.
Automatic software to grade homeworks and tests.
Assessment Essay grading software. Minimum 70% of class
assistance required.
Contact with
professor
None
Incomplete: Online discussion groups. Only one
Social
Interaction
course, given by the Harvard School of Public Health in
quantitative methods, has regional get-togethers.
Availability of
resources
Open-licensed and free of charge.
Credits Not offered.

11. Platform - Course Catalogue by category
- List of Universities provided
- Community of teachers and universities: those who
create the courses are experts in the field
MOOCs Integrated expert tool for creating MOOC courses.
authoring My class progress: monitoring and management tool.
Experience Short videos, quizzes, feedback.
Learning Performance of students, content, training,
Analytics interaction between student.
Online forums and study groups, meet-ups organized
Social
Interaction
by students. Motivational system based on karma and
badges.
Availability of
resources
Open-licensed and free of charge.
Accreditation Mozzila Open Badges

12. COMPARISON BETWEEN OCW AND
MOOCS
Stage Traditional OCW MOOC
Course delivery mode. Online Online
The delivery mode is used
to indicate the method of
course delivery.
Access As access to any web site. OCW users: Massive, give access to a larger group of
teachers, students, and self-learners (may students. Massive. A MOOC builds on the
not be massive). active engagement of several hundred to
several thousand “students” who self-
organize their participation according to
learning goals, prior knowledge and skills, and
common interests..
Platform CMS or Web site Learning Interactive and massive environment
Pre-requisites to Normally the authors documented the In general, MOOCS does not require exams of
enrollment background to use the OCW. prior knowledge (though this some cases may
be possible).
Educational resources OCW typically provide open access to class, Each course includes short video lectures on
syllabus, curricula, and teachers’ guides, different topics, recommend reading, reading
calendars, lecture notes, overheads, for assignments and assignments to be
presentations, assignments, problem sets submitted, usually on a weekly basis. In most
and solutions, examinations, reading lists, humanities and social science courses, and
references and readings, tests, samples, other assignments where an objective
simulations, experiments and standard may not be possible, a peer review
demonstrations, and in many cases audio system is used.
or video.
Do-it-yourself available Yes, in some cases Yes, in almost all cases
labs

13. COMPARISON BETWEEN OCW AND
Stage
Certification
MOOCS Traditional OCW MOOC
of OCW initiatives typically do not Certificate of competency when
learning/competency. provide a degree, credit, or assignment, homework is
certification submitted and a final exam is
passed.
*Coursera and Udacity offer
unofficial certification which is not
acknowledged officially as a
University degree, while edX offers
official certification issued by
Berkeley, MIT and Harvard. .
modes of delivering Ideally utilizing multiple modes of Ideally utilizing multiple modes of
content delivering content: video, audio, delivering content (video, audio,
text, and animation. text, animation). This could be pre-
recorded, live or a combination of
the two.
Open licensing of content, Always. Content is published using Open licensing of content may not
open structure open licenses. be present in all MOOC projects.
Self-Assessments and Participants may complete and Participants may complete and
tasks submit tasks at any time submit tasks at any time while the
course is active.

14. COMPARISON BETWEEN OCW AND
MOOCS
Stage Traditional OCW MOOC
Tuition Zero Zero
Interaction and peer-to-peer No Yes. MOOC integrates the
Exchanges connectivity of social
networking.
Support The courses are created by MOOC Integrates the
faculty experts in a field of facilitation of an
knowledge. However, OCW acknowledged expert in
institutions do not typically a field of study.
provide access to faculty. A
lack of professional support
provided by subject tutors or
experts
Tutoring and guidance A lack of guidance provided by Guidance provided
support specialists
Facilitate asynchronous No. Yes.
interaction
Cost Cost to produce the content, Cost to produce the
there is also a cost to host and content, there is also a
disseminate the content. There cost to host and
is also a cost to develop the disseminate the
platform. content. There is also a
cost to develop the
platform.

15. The OCW-S concept

16. The OCW-S concept. Certification
• Option 1: OCW-S Certificate:
– Certification process: Certification of knowledge
and skills through final evaluation.
– Cost: Zero
• Option 2: Certificate Validated by a University:
– Certification process: Certification of knowledge
and skills through final evaluation.
– Cost: costs depend on the policy of each
institution.

17. The OCW-S concept. Content
organization
– Pedagogy Model: OCW-S are based on several
principles from connectivist pedagogy. Content is
structured in a ‘self-learning’ or ‘self-teaching’
method.
– OCW-S requires instructional design that
facilitates large-scale feedback and interaction.
– Preparation of educational content

18. The OCW-S concept. Mentoring
and support
– Approach: An important subject is to decrease the
feeling of confusion and disorientation for
students who are used to strict, syllabus directed,
lecture courses.
– Strategies: OCW-S uses tools and strategies based
on the Social Web and connectivist design
principles.

19. The OCW-S concept. Monitoring
and self-Assessment
– Approach: use tools and strategies based on the
Social Web.
– Self-Assessment Tool is required. It is important
that the tool helps determine strengths and areas
for improvement or new learning. It is also
important that the tool retaining personal
performance records.
– Facilitate asynchronous interaction between as
many participants as possible.

20. Conclusions
– OCW-S
• gives every student the possibility to obtain both official
and unofficial certification
• requires instructional design that facilitates large-scale
feedback and interaction
• guarantees the quality of all the educational materials
created with the course. These ones can be edited or
added online to other content produced in different
places.
• uses tools and strategies based on the Social Web and
connectivism design principles which offer complete
integration and social networking between peers.