1. Empowering MOOC participants:
dynamic content adaptation through
external tools
Oriol Borrás Gené
LITE Group – Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)

3. MOOC
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4. cMOOC
• Connectivism
• Social component
• External tools
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5. xMOOC
• Video lectures
• Automatic assessment
• Lack of socialization
• Problems to edit during edition
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6. Virtual Learning Communities
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7. Content Curation
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jesusmargon/6931051597 by Jesús Martínez
• Searching
• Filtering
• Analyzing
• Sharing
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8. Increasing interaction in MOOC
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9. Increasing
interaction
in MOOC
USING EXTERNAL TOOLS
CREATE NEW PLATFORMS /
ADAPTING EXISTING
SOCIAL NETWORKS
OTHER TOOLS WIKIS
BLOGS
GOOGLE DOCS
CONTENT CURATION TOOLS
PADLET
DIIGO

10. MOOC description
• “Empower yourself with
social networks”
• Rey Juan Carlos University
• Course 2018/19 -
September
• 1st MiriadaX Educational
Innovation Awords (2018)
• One month – 5 hours/week
© URJC Online design
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11. • 5 modules:
• Learning guide
• Study of our digital identity
• Manage of professional digital identity
• LinkedIn and other professional
networks
• Towards a personal Branding
© URJC Online design
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MOOC description

12. Virtual
Learning
Community
https://www.facebook.com/groups/iDigitalMOOC/ 12

13. MOOC and VLC – limitations
• MOOC platform:
• Cannot be edited
• Closed
• Forums
• VLC:
• Infoxication
• Organization
• External
© URJC Online design
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14. BOARD
MOOC
BOARD
VIRTUAL
LEARNING
COMMUNITY
Writing
Reading
MOOC – proposed model
© URJC Online design
• Criteria to select
• Author
• Only we could
publish
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15. Content curation - Padlet
https://es.padlet.com/oriol_borras_gene/idmooc1
“Module Journals”
Likes and
Comments
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Content curation - Padlet

17. Data collection
• MOOC platform
• Padlet statistics
• Final survey “usefulness and Learning
perception” with 6 specific questions
(Likert scale 1 to 5)
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18. MOOC results (General information)
Enrolled Started
Finished
Number %
(started)
%
(enrolled)
8532 4552 1655 36,3% 19,4%
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19. MOOC
results
(Padlets)
29 days
7052 visits
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20. MOOC results (Padlets)
Padlet boards Number of publications Interactions Views
Module 1 journal 127 67 1818
Module 2 journal 60 54 1552
Module 3 journal 19 29 1731
Module 4 journal 12 13 1951
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21. MOOC results (Padlets)
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22. 188 days
2158 visits
MOOC
results
(Padlets)
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23. Surveys (boards)
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
35.0
40.0
45.0
50.0
I don't know what
they are
They don't seem
useful to me in
any case
I didn't find them
useful at all as
they were
intended.
I found out about
them, but I didn't
pay much
attention to them
I found them very
useful but I
wasn't very
attentive
They seemed
very useful to me
and I came in
every now and
then to look at
them
Q1. What did you think of the journals of each MOOC module in MiriadaX?
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24. Surveys (boards)
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
35.0
40.0
0, I don't know
what they are
1 2 3 4 5
Q2. Assesses the usefulness of the tools used in the MOOC (Journals)
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25. Surveys (boards)
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
35.0
40.0
0, I don't know
what they are
1 2 3 4 5
Q3. Do you think these tools helped you better understand MOOC?
Journals (Padlet)
MiriadaX Forums
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26. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK
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• Students can choose between different levels of participation
• New content integrated in MOOC
• Participants become protagonists
• Journals has been valued as a positive element
• Anyone can use the result contents and interact with contents after
MOOC edition
• Additional work
• In the next edition we will create different groups (Facebook)

27. Oriol Borrás-Gené
LITE group – Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
https://orioltic.tumblr.com
@oriolTIC
Thank you!!
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