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Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning Darco Jansen, EADTU
Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Darco Jansen, EADTU
Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
• EU-projects: MOOCs are • online courses designed for large numbers of participants, • that can be accessed by anyone anywhere as long as they have
an internet connection, • are open to everyone without entry qualifications, • and offer a full/complete course experience • online for free
http://www.openuped.eu/images/docs/Definition_Massive_Open_Online_Courses.pdf
• Wikipedia: A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a community for students, professors, and teaching assistants
Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
MOOCs and Open Education
• Open Education: an approach to education that seeks to remove all unnecessary barriers to learning, while aiming to provide students with a reasonable chance of success in an education and training system centred on their specific needs and located in multiple arenas of learning.
Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
MOOCs and Open Education
• Open = for free + ….
• Open source software / OER : free and open license
• Open universities : an open-door academic policy, i.e. no entry requirements and they are ”open” to all students.
• Open access(ibility); freedom of time, pace and place; open programming; open to people.
Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
MOOC offering HEIs
• In the US the number of institutions having a MOOC or planning to (max 15%) is significant lower than in Europe and Canada (>40%)
• Even after correction for bias in response (IPTS-study)
• EUA (2013): about 58% of the European institution is having a MOOC or planning to introduce them
• EADTU/HOME (2014): about 71% of the institutions has a MOOC or is planning to develop one
• JRC-IPTS (2015): about 41% of the institutions has a MOOC or is planning to develop one
• EADTU/HOME (2015): about 68% of the institutions has a MOOC or is planning to develop one
