Social Community in MOOCs: Practical implications and outcomes
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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
INTRODUCTION
Virtual 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
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: 1145
Followers: 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