A 15-minute presentation about MOOC platforms

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This is a journey to eTourism: Communication Perspectives Star by Stefano Tardini, Nadzeya Kalbaska, Silvia de Ascaniis, Elena Marchiori, Emanuele Mele, Elisabetta Frick, Mattia Pera, Shondel Bervini Director: Lorenzo Cantoni Producer: Jingjing Lin A MOOC COMING ON SCREEN THIS AUTUMN 2015

Transcript of A 15-minute presentation about MOOC platforms

This is a journey to

eTourism: Communication Perspectives

Star by Stefano Tardini, Nadzeya Kalbaska, Silvia de Ascaniis, Elena Marchiori, Emanuele Mele, Elisabetta Frick, Mattia Pera, Shondel Bervini

Director: Lorenzo Cantoni Producer: Jingjing Lin

A MOOC COMING ON SCREEN THIS AUTUMN 2015

Coursesites

• For individual instructors

Open Education

• For academic institutions

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Open Education by Bb is only for existing Bb institute clients to launch MOOCs.

Udemy

It is a party for individual specialists and business sectors.

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Versal has no experience to partner with academic institutes.

Versal

Sorry, I am not experienced with universities.

openlearning has Australian and Malaysian dominant universities partners in the club at present. It is expanding into Asian market.

Back up by Open Universities Australia and have 10 universities in the partner list, exclusively Australian institutes.

Too small. Too mathematic. No university level partners.

What’s the

relationship between

Academic Earth and

YouTube? What?! They are two things?

Not the right community.

Eliademy

“God, all I need is just Sardine, and millions of users.”

…only 50,000 users.

Pros Cons

• Annual partnership fee: USD 50,000.• No mobile app, no responsive site design.• Based in America: time difference when

collaboration.

• 600,000 users.• Full list of features. (100%,15/15)• Stanford background.• High reputation of participating universities.• Certification: free/paid.• Basic learner statistics overview available to

user.

Pros Cons

• Not to display university logo and intro page.• Annual partnership fee: GBP 10,000.• Time-driven learning mode.• No control over video speed.• Only paid certificates offered.

• 900,000 users.

• High reputation of participating universities (less competitive to NovoED).

• Satisfying list of features.(80%,12/15)

• Based in the UK with no time difference when collaboration.

• Led by the UK Open University with rich experiences in online education.

• Underlying pedagogy as social constructivist learning instead of the behaviourism approach by the US xMOOC platform.

• Mobile app available. Responsive site design.

• Basic learner statistics overview available to user.

Pros Cons

• Certificates not available.• Cannot download videos.• No responsive site design.

• 200,000 users.• Free to partner with USI.• Satisfying list of features.(87%,13/15)• Good reputation of participating universities

(less competitive to FutureLearn).

• Mobile app available.• Basic learner statistics overview available to

user.

Pros Cons

• 47 courses available.• No mobile app.• No basic learner statistics overview available

to user.

• 500,000 users.

• Free to partner with USI.

• Satisfying list of features.(87%,13/15)

• Good reputation of participating universities (less competitive to Canvas).

• Responsive site design.

• Certification: free/paid.

• Based in Germany with no time difference when collaboration.

• Availability of bridging ECTS in courses.

March 26, 2015

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THE RISE OF USI MOOCSGET TUNED

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Declaration• All unclaimed photos in this presentation were originally contributed by

Jingjing Lin.• All website screenshots were operated on relevant websites, respectively.• All platforms’ logos were directly retrieved from their websites, respectively.• The time line listing 18 platforms was created by Time Line Generator.