1.
Are MOOCs providing the
European workforce with
the necessary web skills?
LAIA CANALS
P.A.U. EDUCATION

2.
MOOCs for web talent project
Aim
• Fostering Web Talent in Europe by encouraging
the use of MOOCs focused on web skills
Objectives
• Making a precise mapping about the available
MOOCs in Europe in the area of web
development
• Suggesting measures which would strengthen
the MOOCs environment for web
entrepreneurs and facilitate its growth

3.
What do we mean by web skills?
• Web authoring tools such as raw HTML, XML, and CSS,
web programming or scripting, and website design.Core web skills
• Graphic design, animation, and software engineering.Extended web skills
• e-learning, games and gamification, online-
entertainment, and digital art.Adjacent web skills

4.
Project activities: desk research
Objective: to determine the current offering of MOOCs in the area of web skills
59
MOOCs
105
MOOCs

5.
Project actitivies: survey
Aim: to determine the actual benefits MOOCs offer and their potential to increase web talent in the EU
Respondents: 23-42 years
old, male, hold a graduate
or post-graduate degree
Close to 3,000
responses coming from
5 continents and 121
different countries
Most had taken a MOOC: 61% of
the students, 67% of the
developers, and 61% of the
entrepreneurs
Profiles: students,
academicians, teaches,
developers, corporate
managers
Survey

6.
Entrepreneurs and recruiters perspective
Value given to skills acquired through
MOOCs

7.
Did MOOCs help develop the skills they needed?

8.
What students want…
… that MOOCs don’t deliver just yet
o Mapping of supply & demand
o Quality standards
o Massive pedagogies
o Acreditation valued in the job market

9.
MOOC providers perspective
Business model
Barriers for MOOC provision

10.
Conclusions drawn from the survey
o Entrepreneurs & learners want hands-on, practice based
offerings which develop specific skills, suitable for on-the-
job professional development.
o The current supply does not always fit this model.
o Abundance of provision, yet learners are struggling to find
the MOOCs they need.

11.
Emerging themes
o Growing eco-system of campus, blended, hybrid and open online courses,
which would leverage the overlaps and synergies between different modes of
delivery
o Rise in awareness to issues of learning design, evaluation, assessment and
quality control, which are much more salient in on-line courses
o Importance of accreditation and verification schemes, specifically practice-
based schemes (e.g. Portfolios) which would allow learners to demonstrate the
skills they acquired to potential employers

12.
Issues

13.
Project activities: webinar
MOOC accreditation and recognition
July 1st, 2014
150 people registered
http://bit.ly/MOOCAcreditation

14.
Project activities: MOOC workshop at EC-TEL13
Can MOOCs sabe Europe’s unemployed youth? September 17, 2014
o 13 submissions and 7 papers accepted
o 25 people participated in the workshop
o Topics discussed:
o MOOC quality
o Registration and retention
o Certification and employability
o Benefits and costs of providing a MOOC for web skills
o MOOC platform panel FUN, Open Classrooms, Open Course World, and openHPI
o Response to the presentations by Davinia Hernández-Leo & Carlos Delgado-Kloos

15.
The MOOCs for Webtalent Network

16.
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