SIS2016, 1st Conference on Social Impact of Science, Barcelona July 27, 2016

Plenary session: Global partnership for development. The role of academia in empowering participatory and collaborative

action

Open collaborative platforms, education and research: MOOCs, ILDE

… as research question… as research method… as instrument for research impact

under-recognized?

… and other challenges

The role of academia in empowering participatory and collaborative action

Social Impact of Science

Open collaborative platforms, education and research

Open collaborative platforms, education and research

Example 1: MOOCssocial impact: reaching more and more diverse learners

http://createquity.com/2013/09/moocs-and-the-future-of-arts-education-2/

EDUCON 2013

… as research question

… as research method

… as instrument for research impact

Open collaborative platforms, education and research

Example 1: MOOCssocial impact: reaching more and more diverse learners

New questions:patterns of engagementretention rates…

New contexts of experimentation:intervention at large scale settingaccess to more “users”

Reaching broad and larger audienceService to direct users

Open collaborative platforms, education and research

Example 2: Integrated Learning Design Environmentsocial impact: sharing and co-design for innovative

teachinghttp://ilde.upf.edu/about/open and open source Several communities

(20-400 participants, over 4K designs)

… as research question

… as research method

… as instrument for research impact

Open collaborative platforms, education and research

Example 2: Integrated Learning Design Environmentsocial impact: sharing and co-design for innovative

teaching

Open and open sourcemore contexts more data

patterns of collaboration mechanisms to support co-design Characteristics, popularity and

impact of designs

ECTEL 2014

Reaching broad and larger audienceService to direct users

Reaching broad and larger audienceService to direct users

… as research question… as research method… as instrument for research impact

under-recognized… and other challenges

potential to feed traditionalscholarly indicators

the emerging principle of of research and innovation RRI(societal/public engagement, gender equality, open access, science education, ethics and governance in R&I)

tension between role of experts and participants / citizensbiases: minorities, less educated people

Open collaborative platforms, education and researchThe role of academia in empowering participatory and

collaborative action

PROJECTS:Educational Data Science: Data-Driven Support for Learning Design, MdM https://portal.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/projects CoT: Communities of teaching as a data-informed design science and contextualized practice, RecerCaixa #CoTprojectRC/ RESET, Reformulating scalable educational ecosystems offering technological innovations, MEC http://reset.gast.it.uc3m.es/HEIRRI, Higher Education Institutions and Responsible Research and Innovation, H2020, http://heirri.eu/