At the intersection of open practice and institutional collaboration: eMundus Project
- 1. At the intersection of open practice and institutional collaboration: eMundus Project Terese Bird, Educational Designer, School of Medicine OER15 Conference, Cardiff, 15 April 2015
- 6. Countries
- 7. Initiatives
- 9. Scenarios in the Exploratorium
- 10. This presentation will look at examples of MOOC credit and collaboration from around the world, offering insight to educators and decision-makers considering how these may benefit their students and institutions. OPEN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION eMundus eMundus Project: (http://www.emundus-project.eu) Intersection of ‘open’ and ‘institutional collaboration’
- 11. eMUNDUS Mapping & promoting examples falling within the intersections OPEN PRACTICE INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY – VIRTUAL MOBILITY
- 12. Recent exercise for Open Ed Week 2015 webinar: Looking for these intersection cases (webinar recording: http://tinyurl.com/mooccreditcases) MOOC INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION CREDIT
- 13. How might MOOC collaboration benefit universities?
- 14. How might MOOC collaboration benefit universities? Scenario: Two universities offer similar, but competing, courses. They are considering offering some aspect of their courses free and online, in a MOOC. They both contribute materials and labour power to run the MOOC, which attracts many students curious about both courses. After the MOOC is over, 20 students decide to sign up for the traditional courses, 10 to each university. Win-win.
- 15. How might MOOCs offering credit benefit universities? Scenario: • Students are encouraged to apply to university allowing prior credit from community colleges and from MOOCs offered at that university. Students who would not have been able to consider university without this, can now apply and earn a degree in two years. The university has reached new students. • University is seen as public-spirited and forward- thinking.
- 16. OERu: international collaboration, full degrees, not free
- 17. wales • Promoting the quality of Welsh higher education to the nation and internationally • Demonstrating further the collaborative nature of higher education in Wales. • Project Aims and Objectives • The main aims and objectives of the project are to : • Establish an Open Education Resources Portal • Establish a network of Open Education Practice Champions and Promote & Embed Open Educational Practice across the HE Sector • Launch an all Wales sMOOC ( Short Massive Open Online Course) aimed at helping students to survive their first few weeks in University. • Manage and Co-ordinate the hosting of the international OER15 Conference in Wales in April 2015 • The project is managed by Debbie Baff • Open Education Resources & Open Educational Practice Project Manager on behalf of the Universities Wales OER/P Expert Group • http://www.oerwales.ac.uk/?page_id=4
- 18. American Council on Education encourages credit for Coursera MOOCs In February 2013 the American Council on Education (ACE) recommended that its members provide transfer credit from a few MOOC courses (Korn, 2013) • Credit would be given on successful examination facilitated by ProctorU which uses webcam and other technology to watch students take online exam – for extra cost • “Pre-Calculus” and “Algebra” - University of California at Irvine; • “Introduction to Genetics and Evolution” and Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach” -- Duke University; ” • “Calculus: Single Variable” --University of Pennsylvania.
- 19. Antioch University offers credit for MOOC learning
- 20. FutureLearn Examples with thanks to Prof Mike Sharples, Kathy Skelton, Richard Banks • Collaborations between universities and cultural institutions – British Broadcasting Company & University of Leeds – British Broadcasting Company & Open University – British Library & University of Nottingham – British Council & University of Southampton – Museum of Liverpool & University of Leicester – Other kinds of collaboration - sharing best practice, data, research, • Credit – The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has recognised the Discovering Business in Society course for professional credit (passing the exam exempts learners from the F1 exam in their accounting diploma). – A wealth of FutureLearn courses, particularly those in the healthcare area, are accepted and being used to count towards CPD requirements, and in some cases courses are formally certified by the relevant professional body (e.g. CESG, CPD Certification Service). – Some academic partners are actively considering making completion of a FutureLearn course a pre-requisite for their undergraduate courses or modules.
- 21. Leicester FutureLearn • Collaboration between University of Leicester and Museum of Liverpool • ‘Taster’ of Museum Studies MA course
- 22. Universities and other institutions issuing Mozilla Open Badges • http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/upshot/true-reform-in-higher-education-when-online- degrees-are-seen-as-official.html?_r=1&abt=0002&abg=0 Image courtesy of Mozilla Open Badges on Flickr
- 23. Two Universities Collaborative MOOC • Students at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Utah are currently engaged in a collaborative online class, Social Media Journalism, which combines the convenience of a MOOC with the engagement of a medium-sized lecture — and the completion rate is more than 95 percent. The engagement scales, too: students at both schools, 1,300 miles apart, are taking the class together, interacting with each other, viewing the same lesson modules and building a news aggregation service on various social media platforms. The difference is they get a personal instructor and smaller groups of familiar classmates. Our next step is to add more campuses and make this a new kind of MOOC — a network of schools working together with the same material but with individual instructors. • http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/03/turning-a-mooc-into-a-network-of-schools- collaborating/http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/03/turning-a-mooc-into-a-network-of-schools-collaborating/
- 24. Universities + Industries + OpenEdX and Badges • Collaboration with Lorena Barba's Python MOOC and Open edX • By James Willis and Daniel Hickey • In this post, we discuss a new collaboration between Dr. Lorena Barba and her team at George Washington University, Open edX, IU's Center for Research on Learning and Technology, and IBL Studios. This collaboration will implement digital badges in Dr. Barba's new MOOC, "Practical Numerical Methods with Python." • As part of our new MacArthur-funded project, we are happy to announce a new collaboration betweenLorena Barba and her team, Ned Batchelder and others at Open edX, IU's Center for Research on Learning and Technology, and IBL Studios. This effort includes building in badging capability with Dr. Barba's recently-launched massive open online course (MOOC), "Practical Numerical Methods with Python," on the Open edX platform. The press release from George Washington University details the structure of the course and the shared teaching responsibilities from universities in Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and Chile. Dr. Barba is an Associate Professor of Engineering at GW, and effort has been multiple departments. Starting this August, over 2,800 students enrolled in the course. • http://remediatingassessment.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/collaboration-with-lorena-barbas-python.html
- 25. George Tech + Udacity + AT & T = Online Masters in Computer Science
- 26. Share your cases with eMundus • http://tinyurl.com/emunduscases
- 27. International collaboration: Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and Coursera
- 28. http://www.makery.info/en/2014/06/07/11-000-accros-au-1er-mooc-francais-sur- la-fabrication-numerique/ French engineering university MOOC collaboration with local maker labs
- 29. Saudi Arabia: 18 universities joined to create OER repository/MOOC platform Announced 3 March 2015
- 30. Irish MOOC collaborations with industry for free professional accreditation In Ireland ALISON provides free online certificate/diploma courses to two 2 million learners worldwide. ALISON was shortlisted in June 2013 by London–based education technology company Edxus Group and specialist media and advisory firm IBIS Capital, as one of the 'top 20 e- learning companies in Europe' as judged by an expert panel.
- 31. The open + collaborative road ahead… Join in the work! Image courtesy of Matthew Fern on Flickr