Artículo presentado en el congreso TEEM en Salamanca. This paper presents a case of success MOOC (massive open online courses) that focuses on learning communities needed to achieve level of self-interaction of the cMOOCs, giving best results to promote knowledge also contributed by students. This MOOC was awarded with the first place of the “Iberoamerican Award Miríada X SEGIB”. This study reveals how the use and monitoring of virtual communities complemented by external tools, with engaging innovative methodologies and resources, has favoured these successful results. Publication: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2669893 Video Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV4Uc7v43Bs

1. Social Community in MOOCs:
Practical implications and outcomes
Margarita Martínez Núñez
Oriol Borrás Gené
Ángel Fidalgo Blanco

2. PRESENTATION
• INTRODUCTION
• CASE OF STUDY
• PRACTICAL IMPLICATION
• RESULTS
• CONCLUSION

3. INTRODUCTION
MOOC
• What are they?
• Which types are there?

4. INTRODUCTION: Difficulties
• Massiveness
• Closed platforms / not social
– Login
– Interact
– Share

5. INTRODUCTION
Virtual learning communities
• What are they?
• How can you create it?

6. INTRODUCTION: Difficulties
Virtual learning communities
– Advanced Digital Literacy
• Know Social Networks
• Search for
• Licences
– Digital Citizenship

7. INTRODUCTION: Difficulties
Solution for cMOOC:
• Virtual Communities + MOOC’s platform

8. CASE OF STUDY:
“Application of Social Networks to education:
Virtual Communities”
Iberoamerican Award Miriada X SEGIB

9. CASE OF STUDY:
Design of the MOOC
• Organization
• Resources
• Assessment
• Community and communication

10. CASE OF STUDY:
Deployment of the MOOC
– MOOC Miriada X platform
• Videos that were uploaded before in YouTube UPM
• pdf uploaded to Google Drive
– For videoconferencing: free tool Google "Hangouts“
– For social or learning community
• Forum Miriada X
• Two social networks

11. CASE OF STUDY:
Deployment of the MOOC
• Criteria:
– Sense of community
– Number of users
– Content organization and
search
– No hierarchies
– Management

12. CASE OF STUDY:
Deployment of the MOOC

13. RESULTS
• Enrolled students: 4799
• Students at the beginning: 4017
• Students at the end: 819
• 70% between 26 and 50 years
• 55% related to teaching
• 53% working status

14. RESULTS
• Management and
Sense of community
• Use of # and @
• Extension limit
Followings: 1145
Followers: 1137

15. RESULTS
• Management and sense of
community
• Content organization and
search
• Extension limit

16. RESULTS
• Open Community
• 7 categories
• 1139 publication
• + 160 new publication

17. CONCLUSION
• Community has its own life
• Course participants still running and
interacting with them in the community
• Find new ways to motivate students to
participate in the learning community
• Only Google plus

18. Thanks!
Contact:
Oriol.borras@upm.es
@oriolupm