2013 04 19 (uc3m) emadrid athillosen kmrc conceptualizing implementing moocs opco12 coer13

1. E-Learning an deutschen Hochschulen – State-of-the-Art und Trends
Dr. Anne Thillosen, Programmkonferenz UTB, 27.02.2013
Dr. Anne Thillosen (e-teaching.org / KMRC Tübingen)
Conceptualizing and implementing MOOCs –
experiences and lessons learned from
OPCO12 and an outlook on COER13
10 years10 years

2. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
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Agenda
• MOOCs:
- A brief overview & the German MOOC landscape
• OPCO12:
- Conception & structure
- Central results of the evaluation
• COER13:
- First impressions
• Lessons learned & open questions

3. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
MOOC
M – Massive
•Number of participants – from 150 up to more than 100.000
O – Open
•Accessible, no restrictions of participation
•No payment
•(for cMOOCs also: decentralized, open infrastructure, learners define
their own objectives, the tools they use etc.)
O – Online
•Online only, realized via different technological systems
•(bMOOCs may have face-to-face meetings)
C – Course
•Organized as a “course“ ( OER)
•(for cMOOCs also: community, communication etc.)
Chaos? Confusion?
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4. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
2012 – Year of the MOOC
2008: ”Connectivism and Connective Knowledge“ (CCK08) – 1st
MOOC (“cMOOC“), offered by Downes & Siemens
2011: 3 courses, launched by Stanford University, each with over
100.000 enrollments (“xMOOC“)
Feb 2012: The Horizon Report 2012 does not mention MOOCs
2012: Launch of several consortia offering MOOCs: udacity,
coursera, edX etc.
Nov 2012: The New York Times declared 2012 to be the Year of the
MOOC
Feb 2013: The Horizon Report 2013 predicts MOOCs to be a trend
with a Time-to-Adoption Horizon of one year or less
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5. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
MOOC – Overview
Types of MOOCs
•cMOOC: “connectivist“, “the original concept“, seminar-like
•xMOOCs: x for “extension“, instructional conception, often very high numbers of
enrollment, lecture-like
•bMOOCs: blended MOOC – combination with face-to-face meetings, e.g.
seminar at a university and open group of participants
•smOOC: small Open Online Course, less than 150 participants, seminar-like
German MOOCs in the context of universities
•cMOOCs: OPCO11, OCWL11, OPCO12, MMC13, COER13
•xMOOCs (since 2012)
- 2012: Hasso-Plattner-Institut
- 2012: IMC AG in cooperation with Univ. des Saarlandes
- 2013: Digital School of the Leuphana Univ. Lüneburg
- 2013: Call from iversity / Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
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6. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
OPCO11
Yuan, Li, and Stephen Powell. MOOCs and Open Education: Implications
for Higher Education. White Paper. University of Bolton: CETIS, 2013.
http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2013/667
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OPCO12 and COER13 within the
MOOC landscape

7. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
OPen COurse 2012 „Trends im E-Teaching
– der Horizon Report unter der Lupe“
• Co-operation partners: studiumdigitale
(Univ. Frankfurt), Multimediakontor
Hamburg (MMKH), Dr. Jochen Robes
(Blogger in the field of further education),
e-teaching.org
• 16.04. – 21.07: 14 weeks, six topics:
- Mobile Apps - Learning Analytics
- Tablet Computing - Gesture-Based Computing
- Game-Based Learning - Internet of Things
• 1.451 enrollments
• 3 accompanying surveys: before start, at half time, at the end;
analysis of logfiles; analysis of blogposts, tweets, comments etc.
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8. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
cMOOCs: the connectivist principles
• Aggregate
• Remix
• Repurpose
• Feed Forward
 Self-paced learning
 Networking
Stumbling blocks
•Heterogeneous group of participants
•Information overload – and difficulties to
find the different sources
•Participants need self-disciplin
•Inhibitions of writing publicly
•Calculation of the expenditure of time is
difficult
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9. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
Structure of OPCO12
Week 1 of a course unit Week 2 of a course unit
Monday
Introduction to the
topic of the unit,
reading
suggestions &
suggestions for
other content
Thursday
Online event
Monday
Interim conclusion
and collection of
questions for the
further discussion
by the moderator
Friday
Summary of the
course unit and
documentation of
the results by the
hosts
Regular news / blog posts / tweets from the hosts and organizers;
All participants can take part in the discussion via blogs, tweets, comments etc.
http://opco12.de/
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10. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
Which content was most important
to the participants?
(2nd survey, n = 79)
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Summaries Content Online Reading Blog posts News- Blog posts Chat Tweets
proposals events proposals (organizers) letters (participants)

11. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
Online-Events
Live
Recording
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week 1 week 2 & 3 week 4 & 5 week 6 & 7 week 8 & 9 week 10 & 11 week 12 & 13
Introductio
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12. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
Blogposts & comments
295 Blog posts 265 Comments
Intro-
duction
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week 1 week 2 & 3 week 4 & 5 week 6 & 7 week 8 & 9 week 10 & 11 week 12 & 13

13. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
Analysis of the blog posts of OPCO12
– by a participant
(http://sylviamoessinger.files.wordpress.com/, 11.07.2012)
37
36
54
31
25
10
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14. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
Tweets
2.300 Tweets with #opco12
1st week 2nd week 3rd week 4th week 5th week 6th week 7th week 8th week 9th week 10thweek 11th week 12th week 13th week
Intro-
duction
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week 1 week 2 & 3 week 4 & 5 week 6 & 7 week 8 & 9 week 10 & 11 week 12 & 13

15. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
Networking with other participants
(3rd survey, n = 144)
contact before OPCO12: 80%: No
contact during OPCO12: 55%: 0 persons
34%: 1-3 persons
5%: 4-6 persons
6%: more than 6 persons
68%: It was NOT my wish to make new contacts
64%: Networking was NOT IMPORTANT to me
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16. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
Correlation between
badge and participation
(2nd survey, n = 79)
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writing commenting reading online event reading
Blog posts blog posts materials blogposts

17. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
COER13: The Online Course on OER
(Open Educational Ressources)
• 08.04. – 28.06.2013
• 12 weeks: introduction week;
5 topics / units, final reflection week
• 1.018 enrollments (16.04.13)
• 62 registered blog feeds (16.04.13)
• Ca. 700 Tweets with #coer13
(16.04.13)
• Ca. 60 blog posts (16.04.13)
• More than 300 posts in the internet
forum
www.coer13.de
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18. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
• 11 weeks,
11 topics / units
• Online events
• Very free struc-
ture l…
• Aggregation of
Blogs, Twitter
• Platform: Blog
• Comments
• No certification
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• 14 weeks,
6 topics / units
• Online events
• … more structured
l……..
• Aggregation of
Blogs, Twitter
• Platform: Blog
• Comments
• Online badges,
3 levels
• 12 weeks,
5 topics / units
• Online events
• … and even more
structured
• Aggregation of Blogs,
Twitter
• Platform: gRRShopper
• Internet forum, Wiki
• Online badges, 2 levels
• (voluntary) assignments
for every unit
OPCO11

19. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
Who are the participants?
Professional background
Employee at a central unit of a university 27% 23%
Working in the education sector (but not
in a university or in school)
27% 20%
Lecturer / professor at a university 19% 21%
Employed at a business enterprise 15% 8%
Self-employed 14% 18%
Student 13% 16%
Teacher (at a school) 11% 23%
n = 610 n = 426
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Age
<20 0,5%
20 – 29 13% 9%
30 – 39 28% 23%
40 – 49 35% 33%
50 – 59 18% 26%
>60 6% 7%
n = 610 n = 391

20. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
Motivation
Why do you participate?
Interest in the topic 90% 98%
Type of the course 67% 85%
Professional development 62% 78%
Prominence of organizers 12% 38%
Relevance for my studies 9% 25%
n = 610 n = 392
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MOOC
experience
Yes 20% 37%
No 80% 63%
n = 610 n = 410

21. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
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Open questions & lessons learned
• Pedagogy of MOOCs: still a field of experimentation
• Self-regulated learning skills necessary
• Media literacy important factor
• Interconnection between learners not that important …
• Badges can foster engagement and motivation
• Significance of the chosen tools

22. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
Many thanks for your attention!
a.thillosen@iwm-kmrc.de
www.e-teaching.org
www.coer13.de
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23. Dr. Anne Thillosen (KMRC, Tübingen/Germany)
eMadrid, 19.04.2013
Many thanks for your attention!
a.thillosen@iwm-kmrc.de
www.e-teaching.org
www.coer13.de
M C

24. What is e-teaching.org?
An information portal to
foster the use of new media
in higher education
•4 Main Sections
•4 “Service Sections”
•for users with different levels
of knowledge and
•skills in the field of ICT
Conceptualized for
•self-navigated learning or
•hybrid qualification con-cepts
which combine the portal with
advisory services http://www.e-teaching.org/
English translation (main pages)
http://www.e-teaching.org/etresources/media/en/index.html