Mobiblog case study

SEMINAR FOR BOLOGNA AND HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM EXPERTS: Cross Border Education Madrid, 22-24 april, 2013

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Mobi-Blog – The European Weblog Platform for Mobile Students


Miguel Gea, E-Learning Centre of University of Granada

[email protected]

http://www.mobi-blog.eu

Agreeement 134390-LLP-I-2007-I-ES-ERASMUS-EVCERASMUS – Virtual Campuses 10/2007- 11/2009

http://madrid2013.bolognaexperts.net/


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Our role in the University• Traditional 500 years old University• International Relations • Mobility 1st Incoming Erasmus Students 1st Outcome Erasmus Students

•Innovations technologies •Promoting new media & ICT learning technologies•Training teachers & student


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Mobi-blog and “cross border education”

• Building the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) & Erasmus Mobility

• Questions?: • Student point of view• ICT support (for XXI century of digital natives)


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Aims

• European Higher Education Area (EHEA)

• Erasmus Mobility (cultural change)

• Web 2.0 (support to this process)


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Background

• Mobility means• Cultural changes (country, cities, language)• Courses / teachers & methodologies / skills (ECTS) • Social impact (family & friends)

• Web use• The 70% of students are part of social networks,

but only 18% have own blog.• The (80%) ERASMUS students would learn from

previous experiences


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BackgroundImpact of ICT


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MOBIBLOG:The European Weblog platform for Mobile Students

ERASMUS – Virtual Campus


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Methodological approach

• Mobiblog = (learning from) storytelling

• It is a multi-institutional, web-based, bottom-up multi-lingual service on European level for peer-to-peer exchange of experiences of individual mobile students

• Consist of:• A self-sustaining weblog area for European mobile students• An structured and comprehensive online guide for mobile

students which summarizes the collected real life experiences

• Promote the creation of a network of universities to integrate Mobi-Blog into their portfolio of services for mobile students


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Technological approach

BlogMulti-lingualExperiences interchange

http://mobi-blog.eu


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Technological approachONLINE GUIDE - Structured organisation of stories

Useful information: country, city, university


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Activities: dissemination


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Analysis of results

• Distribution Geographically: from - to + cities

• Contents: Discussion topics

• Feelings: the affective emotion of narration


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Analysis of results: geographically

• Stories from 20 different countries • Analysed as from-to pairs (where to go … where are from)


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Analysis of results: geographically

• Most popular cities (most demanded cities)


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Analysis of results: contents

• Categorization of topics• Day-living = set of survival advices kit


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Analysis of results: feelings

• Posts include affective information

• Considered one of the Best experiences of their life (17%)


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Analysis of results: usability• Use of eye tracking • Detect problems in design (understanding) + improvements

• Comprehension • navigation • visualization


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Lesson learnt

Important service for students

• Universities is adopting such information• Reception of incoming Erasmus students

• ICT & social network:• Recommendations / advices• Courses (before & after mobility)

BUILDING ONLINE (LEARNING) COMMUNITIES


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Other works at UGR - OER

Testing and Open Education Framework for Europe

http://oer-europe.net

- OER creation- Quality Assurance - Certification


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Other works at UGR – Virtual mobility

MOVINTER – Enhancing Virtual Mobility to foster institutional cooperation and internationalisation of curricula

http://movinter.eu

- Collaboration EU-LAC (extending EHEA) - (Virtual) Mobility - Policy

http://movinter.eu/


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Current work: OER & MOOC – online communities

Students with:Virtual mobility

http://abierta.ugr.es

Free online coursesSocial learningLifelong learning For all

2K students (everyone) in two weeks ! Interested and motivated!Follow at Twitter #abiertaUGR

http://abierta.ugr.es/


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