Presentation for the "Do we need a shared European MOOC platform?" paper in the HOME (http://home.eadtu.eu/) MOOC Conference "Mapping the European MOOC territory", Porto Nov 27th 2014.

1. HOME
Mapping The European MOOC Territory
TIAGO SANTOS
ISCTE-IUL
tiago.santos@iscte.pt
CARLOS COSTA
ISCTE-IUL
carlos.costa@iscte.pt
MANUELA APARÍCIO
ISCTE-IUL
manuela.aparicio@iscte.pt
DO WE NEED A SHARED
EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?

2. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
HTTP://CHRONICLE.COM/ARTICLE/MAJOR-PLAYERS-IN-THE-MOOC/138817/

3. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
DENMARK
FINLAND
5
FRANCE
GERMANY
87
IRELAND
3
ITALY
12
LITHUANIA
1
ESTONIA
1
NETHERLANDS
28
BELGIUM
122 6
4
18 2
903
NORWAY
1 SWEDEN
4
PORTUGAL
3
RUSSIA
18
SLOVAKIA
1
SPAIN
25622
TURKEY
4
CYPRUS
1
770
EUROPEAN MOOCs
DISTRIBUTION OF
MOOCs
PER COUNTRY
68
MOOCs starting in September
MOOCs in our database
EUROPEAN MOOCs SCOREBOARD
Last updated 03.09.2014
SWITZERLAND
41
UK
17420
1
DISTRIBUTION OFM MOOOOCCss BY SUBJECT GROWTH RATE
OF EUROPEAN
versus
180
3000
3200
3400
AUSTRIA
7
3036
3246
1
2 1
3
HTTP://OPENEDUCATIONEUROPA.EU/ES/EUROPEAN_SCOREBOARD_MOOCS#

4. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
FRAGMENTATION
European initiatives
have been isolated
and fragmented
The European Commission

5. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
A SHARED EUROPEAN
MOOC PLATFORM
The collaboration of
(pan-)European HEI in
the development of new
educational solutions
which could otherwise be
out of reach if designed
by each institution on its
own

6. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
ADVANTAGES
ECONOMIES OF SCALE
Economies of scale that
bring down the cost of
development of didactical
models and educational
materials

7. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
ADVANTAGES
SHARED SERVICES
Aggregate the contributes
of the actual initiatives
and provide the scaffold
for a series of shared
services like registration,
single sign-on, LMS
integration and partner
agreements on badge/
credit transfer and/or
networked curricula

8. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
ADVANTAGES
LEARNING ANALYTICS
The scale of the platform
could generate enough
information about
learner’s activity that
would give rise to
personalised learning
environments that
adapt to the learner’s
needs in order to secure
completion

9. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
ADVANTAGES
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
A common open source software infrastructure
would facilitate the implementation and
maintenance as well as its continuous improvement

10. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
ADVANTAGES
OER
Open licensing is making
it easier to share the effort
involved in developing
educational resources
and it may enable new
institutions to start open
and distance learning
programmes more easily
and with less initial cost

11. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
ADVANTAGES
OPENUPED QUALITY
LABEL
The use of a shared
quality label, specifically
tailored to e-learning,
can assure an educational
experience that can
bridge informal and
formal learning, providing
recognition for students’
achievements

12. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
ADVANTAGES
EUROPEAN LEARNER
PROFILE
A profile to aggregate
student's academic
achievements and provide
integration with career
services and professional
orientated social
networking platforms like
LinkedIn

13. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
ADVANTAGES
ACCESSIBILITY
For students that
have geographical or
economic limitations,
or even health disabilities,
have the possibility
to experience foreign
cultures through the
contact with international
learning communities

14. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
BARRIERS
ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION
It is necessary to
develop a regulatory
framework to allow the
unbundling of course
design, provision and
certification, and OER
assessment to happen
on a credit-equivalence
basis by independent
providers
A major hurdle to the
integration of open
learning with formal
learning due to the
lack of international
accreditation and
assessment services

15. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
BARRIERS
RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING (RPL)
Initiatives to share
resources in the RPL
should be piloted and
deployed, so that the
equivalent learning
based on the same
resources does not
need to be checked on
multiple occasions
Already in innovative
practice in many
institutions but usually
has deeply idiosyncratic,
labor-intensive and not
particularly cost-effective
or scalable institutional
policies

16. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
BARRIERS
OER ADOPTION
There must be a strong
base of support within
institutions – both in
terms of leadership
and resources, and
an existing culture of
openness, including
policies and practices
around the creation
and use of OER
Universities are still
reticent to reuse openly
licensed courses and
the lack of availability
of committed staff
members and
support from senior
management

17. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
BARRIERS
ADMINISTRATION
Again, there must be a
strong base of support
within institutions,
governments and
European Commission
Administrative and
bureaucratic difficulties
of managing a project
with a large number and
variety of stakeholders

18. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
MOOCs
w/ Open Source Software & OER
INSTITUTIONS
European Learner Profile
w/ LinkedIn and other social network integration, badges, etc.
EUROPEAN SHARED MOOC PLATFORM
OpenupEd Quality Label
Course creation
Student credits
Networked curricula
Shared services
(registration, single sign-on, etc.)
Learning analytics
Student
curricula

19. DO WE NEED A SHARED EUROPEAN MOOC PLATFORM?
MOOCs
w/ Open Source Software & OER
INSTITUTIONS
European Learner Profile
w/ LinkedIn and other social network integration, badges, etc.
EUROPEAN SHARED MOOC PLATFORM BARRIERS
OpenupEd Quality Label
Course creation
Student credits
Networked curricula
Shared services
(registration, single sign-on, etc.)
Learning analytics
Student
curricula
Recognition of
prior learning
OER adoption
Assessment
& Accreditation

20. OBRIGADO!
HOME
Mapping The European MOOC Territory
TIAGO SANTOS
ISCTE-IUL
tiago.santos@iscte.pt
@tiagomssantos
CARLOS COSTA
ISCTE-IUL
carlos.costa@iscte.pt @carlosjcosta
MANUELA APARÍCIO
ISCTE-IUL
manuela.aparicio@iscte.pt @ManuelaAparicio