moocs inside universities
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MOOCs in Universities
Steve White
@S_T_White
Manuel León
@mleonurr
Su White
@suuki
An analysis of MOOC Discourse as Represented in HE Magazines
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Overview
Who are we?
What did we do?
How did we do it?
What did we find?
What did we conclude?
What will we do?
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Who we are
STEVE WHITE@S_T_WHITE
MANUEL LEÓN@MLEONURR
SU WHITE@SUUKI
Web Science PhD students Associate ProfessorECS
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Institute of Learning Innovation and Development (ILIaD)
Prof. Hugh Davis(Director)
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ActivitiesMOOC Datasets managementData AnalysisCuration:Academic Literature (Mendeley)Journalistic literature (Scoop.it)BlogTrainingPublications
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MOOC Observatory Curation Activity
Mendeley Group:● Nearly 300
academic sources about MOOCs
● All tagged and classified
● Open Group
Scoop.it Page● Daily Curation● MOOC News● Journalistic Articles
https://www.mendeley.com/groups/2754851/mooc-observatory/
http://www.scoop.it/t/moocs-and-heis/
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What did we want to know?
Main internal stakeholders’ concerns about MOOCs
Motivations for developing MOOCs
Implications of developing MOOCs
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What have others done?
Systematic literature reviews (Liyanagunawardena et. al., 2013; Mohammed et. al., 2014)– Assessment & Intercultural communication as key
issues
News media discourse on MOOCs (Bulfin et.al. 2014; Kovanovich et.al. 2015) – Degrees of acceptance of MOOCs within professionals
& general public
Sentiment analysis (BIS, 2014)– Skepticism vs Enthusiasm in literature
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What did we do?
We studied MOOC discourses in HE Magazines
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What did we asume?
Ask, inform
Read, inform
Specialist MediaUniversities
Internal Stakeholders
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How did we do it?
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How did we do it?
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What did we find?
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What did we conclude?
Speculation is decreasing
Action and adaptation is increasing
New teaching approaches
New relationships and dynamics
More interest in educational innovation than marketing, business models or social mission
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What we will do?
Keep reading– and populating the database
Analysing the discourse evolution over time
Analysing thematic differences between academic cultures (Europe, America, Asia, Africa)
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Thanks!
Any questions?
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