social community in moocs: practical implications and outcomes (teem 2014 - salamanca)

Social Community in MOOCs: Practical implications and outcomes

Margarita Martínez Núñez Oriol Borrás Gené

Ángel Fidalgo Blanco

PRESENTATION

• INTRODUCTION • CASE OF STUDY• PRACTICAL IMPLICATION• RESULTS• CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

MOOC• What are they?• Which types are there?

INTRODUCTION: Difficulties

• Massiveness• Closed platforms / not social– Login– Interact – Share

INTRODUCTIONVirtual learning communities• What are they?• How can you create it?

Virtual learning communities– Advanced Digital Literacy• Know Social Networks• Search for• Licences

– Digital Citizenship

INTRODUCTION: Difficulties

INTRODUCTION: Difficulties

Solution for cMOOC:• Virtual Communities + MOOC’s platform

“Application of Social Networks to education: Virtual Communities”

Iberoamerican Award Miriada X SEGIB

CASE OF STUDY:

CASE OF STUDY: Design of the MOOC

• Organization • Resources• Assessment• Community and communication

CASE OF STUDY: Deployment of the MOOC

– MOOC Miriada X platform • Videos that were uploaded before in YouTube UPM• pdf uploaded to Google Drive

– For videoconferencing: free tool Google "Hangouts“– For social or learning community

• Forum Miriada X • Two social networks

CASE OF STUDY: Deployment of the MOOC

• Criteria: – Sense of community– Number of users– Content organization and

search– No hierarchies– Management

Community Se

lection

CASE OF STUDY: Deployment of the MOOC

RESULTS

• Enrolled students: 4799• Students at the beginning: 4017• Students at the end: 819• 70% between 26 and 50 years• 55% related to teaching• 53% working status

RESULTS

• Management andSense of community

• Use of # and @• Extension limit

Followings: 1145Followers: 1137

RESULTS

• Management and sense of community

• Content organization and search

• Extension limit

RESULTS

• Open Community • 7 categories• 1139 publication• + 160 new publication

CONCLUSION

• Community has its own life• Course participants still running and

interacting with them in the community• Find new ways to motivate students to

participate in the learning community• Only Google plus

Thanks!Contact:Oriol.borras@upm.es@oriolupm