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?