Supporting European Open Education and MOOCs: Governmental and institutional roles by Darco Jansen (EADTU)

1. Supporting European Open Education
and MOOCs:
Governmental and institutional roles

2. Aim SCORE2020 project
• Support the setup of regional expertise centres for the
development and use of MOOCs and Open Education.
• Most countries of the partnership already started with some
way of cross-institutional support of open education and/or
MOOCs (e.g., Norway, France, the Netherlands, Ireland).
• The partners will exchange and jointly develop expertise and
will develop a common approach.
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3. MOOCs are hot!
• However, these figures exclude many European MOOC
(list MOOC offering of the big MOOC platforms)
• Many European universities have built an own
platform or use a regional platform with a limited
visibility.
• Most universities are not accepted by the big MOOC
platforms in the US by lacking the reputation (in ranking)
and finances to become a partner.

4. MOOC uptake in Europe
• At least about 40% of HEIs in Europe are having MOOCs or
planning to develop MOOCs soon against 12% in the US
• Strongest involvement is seen in those regions with
supportive policies and structures
• MOOC initiatives in central and eastern Europe are still in a
vulnerable starting phase.

5. Stimulate European MOOC uptake
• As MOOCs are for massive audiences and relate to
scalability – joint partnerships are essential.
• The regional differences in languages, cultures and
pedagogical approaches hinder the development and uptake
of MOOCs at overall Europe level
• Survey (2015) amongst 150-HEIs demonstrates that many
European higher education institutions are willing to
collaborate on scalable services in MOOC provision, and that
a regional collaboration is much more likely that outsourcing
services to commercial parties.
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6. Most important support services to collaborate on

7. Most important support services to collaborate on

8. Quality Assurance
spectrum
Check compliance
with quality
standards
Support institutions
in quality
enhancement
OpenupEd label
Institutional MOOC quality label,
flexibility to:
 set relevant goals
 demonstrate quality of
performance
 plan for improvement
Checklist
Quality dimensions, for example
 Is it a MOOC, or not?
 Quality of the design of MOOCs
 Accessibility
 Technical platform and support
Output 8: MOOC Quality and it’s use by different target groups

9. Most important support services to collaborate on

10. SCORE2020 – support in design of MOOCS
Intellectual Outputs
• O4: Conditions for and characteristics of MOOCs design
models
• O5: Instructional design models for different types /settings of
MOOCs
• O6: Train-the-trainer mini Open Online Course
Disclosing (best) practices of 8 SCORE2020 partners
• Capacity building in designing and developing MOOCs
• 5 multiplier Events and 2 training Events with 237 attendees
with strong focus on design of MOOCs
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11. SCORE2020 – how to organize the support services
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Important role governmental policy, HEIs, providers,
employment agencies, etc. in uptake and support
Intellectual Outputs
• O7: Awareness raising based on evidence available
• O10: SWOT analysis / benchmarking regional support
centres
• O11: Scenario’s for support of different target groups
• O12: Business models for regional support centres

12. Surveys held amongst participation
SCORE2020 events (response 56)

13. Survey 2016 amongst >100 HEIs in Europe

14. • Most reasons in favour for cross-institutional collaboration are related to
beneficiaries of sharing, the scalability needed and a joint quality assurance.
• Some comments are related to not knowing the (dis)advantage of MOOCs both
strategically and on teaching itself.

15. SCORE2020 – towards sustainable support
• SCORE2020 partners will continue with improving and
extending their regional support structures (can be cross-
institutional, regional or national)
• Other regions are interested and for example Czech Republic
is initiating a national support structure based and with help of
SCORE2020 partners.
• Partnership continues with European collaboration through
OpenupEd initiative providing support structure at different
levels (O13: International collaboration of regional centres)
• Starting European MOOC Consortium acting as a
European voice
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16. Panel discussion
• regional/national opportunities regarding support services on
Open education and MOOCs
• local challenges to overcome and/or are already tackled
• status in organising such regional support
• future ambition regarding regional/national/European level
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17. Thank you!!!
Darco.Jansen@eadtu.eu
Coordinator
Partner