Presentation at 'How Europe Seizes the Opportunities Offered by MOOCs', HOME Project Pre-Conference Workshop, European Distance and e-Learning Network (EDEN) Conference, Barcelona, 9th June.
Presentation at 'How Europe Seizes the Opportunities Offered by MOOCs', HOME Project Pre-Conference Workshop, European Distance and e-Learning Network (EDEN) Conference, Barcelona, 9th June.
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Presentation at 'How Europe Seizes the Opportunities Offered by MOOCs', HOME Project Pre-Conference Workshop, European Distance and e-Learning Network (EDEN) Conference, Barcelona, 9th June.
1. Professor Mark Brown
National Institute for Digital Learning
Dublin City University
Opportunities and Threats of the MOOC
Movement for Higher Education:
A European Perspective
HOME Project
Master Class, Barcelona
9th May 2015
4. Professor Mark Brown
National Institute for Digital Learning
Dublin City University
Opportunities and Threats of the MOOC
Movement for Higher Education:
A European Perspective
HOME Project
Master Class, Barcelona
9th May 2015
5. Gaebel, M., Kupriyanova, V., Morais, R. &
Colucci, E. (2014). E-learning in European
Higher Education Institutions: Results of a
mapping survey conducted in October-
December 2013.
Jansen, D. & Schuwer, R. (2015). Institutional MOOC strategies in Europe Status
report based on a mapping survey conducted in October - December 2014. EADTU –
HOME project
6. John Pilger reminds us that despite huge
advancements in technology over the last
50 years, the wealth gap between
developed and developing countries has
more than doubled.
9. 1. Images of the present
2. Kaleidoscope of competing images
3. Focusing on preferred images for the future
Opportunities and Threats of the MOOC
Movement for Higher Education:
A European Perspective
11. “An educational change is neither natural nor
normal, constant nor common as it involves a
deeper struggle over who will win control of
the curriculum” (Evans, 1996, p.25).
15. Selwyn, N., & Bulfin, S. (2014). The discursive construction of MOOCs as educational opportunity
and educational threat. Monash University.
16.
17. Almost 4000 articles from 591
news sources from around the
world, with close to 50%
reduction in media stories in
2014 from peak of 2013.
18. White, S, Urrutia, L., Manuel & White, S. (2015). MOOCs inside universities: an analysis of MOOC
discourse as represented in HE magazines. In CSEDU 2015 7th International Conference on Computer
Supported Education, Lisbon, PT, 23 - 25 May 2015. 8pp.
19. White, S, Urrutia, L., Manuel & White, S. (2015). MOOCs inside universities: an analysis of MOOC
discourse as represented in HE magazines. In CSEDU 2015 7th International Conference on Computer
Supported Education, Lisbon, PT, 23 - 25 May 2015. 8pp.
106 Articles in…
• Times Higher Education
• Inside Higher Education
• Chronicle of Higher
Education
20.
21.
22.
23. • When did the first MOOC-related story appear in
the Irish media?
QUESTION…
26. 2012 2013 2014 2015 Total
Number
of stories
1 24 39 11
(33)
77
Brown, M., Costello, E., Donlon, E., Nic Giollamhichil, M., Kirwan, C. (2015). MOOCs in Irish media: Messages behind the
story. Presentation at Opening Up Education: National MOOC Symposium, Dublin City University, Dublin, 1st May.
32. Recommendation
6. “National funding frameworks should create
incentives, especially in the context of new
forms of performance-based funding, for
higher education institutions to open up
education, to develop more flexible
modes of delivery and to diversify their
student population.”
34. “There is also almost no understanding of
the private and social benefits of distance
and online education in comparison with
those of face-to-face education” (Rumble, 2014,
p.208).
Key paradox…
37. • Who is creating the image
and why?
• What are we being told
about the image?
• What is missing from the
image?
• What images are not being
created?
2. Kaleidoscope of competing images
MOOCs
38. • a type of marketing
• an academic labor policy
• a kind of entertainment media
• an expression of Silicon Valley values
• a financial policy for higher education
MOOCs are…
Peters, M. (2013). Massive Open Online Courses and Beyond: the Revolution to
Come. Truthout, August 17
48. "This is a major opportunity for the Irish economy
to become involved with a company that employs
300,000 people worldwide and has a turnover of
$15bn.”
49. "This is a major opportunity for the Irish economy
to become involved with a company that employs
300,000 people worldwide and has a turnover of
$15bn.”
“As Chandra told the heads of the Universities and
IOTs in Dublin this week, we are talking about
building an entire economy based on Irish
education. These are wise words from a man
whose company's exports are worth more to the
Indian economy than their total oil imports.”
50. • Open learning
• Online learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
E-learning •
Digital learning •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Learning Society
Knowledge Economy
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same ‘language of persuasion’ to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
Major Competing Lenses
51. • Open learning
• Online learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
Reproduction
• Mass education
• Quality standards
• Education as commodity
• Increased market competition
Learning Society
Knowledge Economy
E-learning •
Digital learning •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same ‘language of persuasion’ to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
Major Competing Lenses
52. • Open learning
• Online learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
ReschoolingReproduction
• Monolingual
• Learning for all
• Global curriculum
• Education in change
• Mass education
• Quality standards
• Education as commodity
• Increased market competition
Learning Society
Knowledge Economy
E-learning •
Digital learning •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same ‘language of persuasion’ to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
Major Competing Lenses
53. • Open learning
• Online learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
ReschoolingReproduction
Learning Society
Knowledge Economy
E-learning •
Digital learning •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same ‘language of persuasion’ to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
Major Competing Lenses
Coursera FutureLearn
54. • Open learning
• Online learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
Deschooling
ReschoolingReproduction
• Monolingual
• Learning for all
• Global curriculum
• Education in change
• Mass education
• Quality standards
• Education as commodity
• Increased market competition
• Democratic
• Open access
• Learning webs
• Unbundling learning
Learning Society
Knowledge Economy
E-learning •
Digital learning •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same ‘language of persuasion’ to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
Major Competing Lenses
55. • Open learning
• Online learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
Deschooling
ReschoolingReproduction
• Monolingual
• Learning for all
• Global curriculum
• Education in change
• Mass education
• Quality standards
• Education as commodity
• Increased market competition
Learning Society
Knowledge Economy
E-learning •
Digital learning •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same ‘language of persuasion’ to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
Major Competing Lenses
OERu
56. Reconceptualist
• Open learning
• Online learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
Deschooling
ReschoolingReproduction
• Monolingual
• Learning for all
• Global curriculum
• Education in change
• Diversity
• Just society
• Wicked problems
• Education for change
• Mass education
• Quality standards
• Education as commodity
• Increased market competition
• Democratic
• Open access
• Learning webs
• Unbundling learning
Learning Society
Knowledge Economy
E-learning •
Digital learning •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same ‘language of persuasion’ to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
Major Competing Lenses
57. Reconceptualist
• Open learning
• Online learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
Deschooling
ReschoolingReproduction
• Monolingual
• Learning for all
• Global curriculum
• Education in change
• Mass education
• Quality standards
• Education as commodity
• Increased market competition
• Democratic
• Open access
• Learning webs
• Unbundling learning
Learning Society
Knowledge Economy
E-learning •
Digital learning •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same ‘language of persuasion’ to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
Major Competing Lenses
OpenupEd
58.
59. LEARNING
TO BE
LEARNING
TO KNOW
LEARNING
TO DO
LEARNING
TO LIVE
TOGETHER
Digital
Capability
Digital
Inclusion
Digital
Citizenship
RECONCEPTUALIST
FRAMEWORK FOR MOOCs
Fundamental Principles for Opening Up Education
60. LEARNING
TO BE
LEARNING
TO KNOW
LEARNING
TO DO
LEARNING
TO LIVE
TOGETHER
Digital
Capability
Digital
Inclusion
Digital
Citizenship
RECONCEPTUALIST
FRAMEWORK FOR MOOCs
Fundamental Principles for Opening Up Education
63. “All education springs from images of the
future and all education creates images of the
future. Thus all education, whether so intended
or not, is a preparation for the future.
Unless we understand the future for which we
are preparing we may do tragic damage to
those we teach.”
(Toffler, 1974).
3. Focusing on preferred images
for the future