Towards a Crowd-sourced Open Education Strategy for Employment

in Europe with Qualification-focused MOOCs

Stylianos Mystakidis & Eleni Berki

HOME conference, Mapping the European MOOC Territory, 27/11/14, Porto

Stylianos Mystakidis MSc, PMP, Phd cand.

• Learning Manager & Innovator @ Center for Vocational Training, University of Patras (Greece)

• Adjunct Faculty @ University of the West of England (UK) & Open University of Catalonia (Spain)

• Teaching Mentor @ University of Washington (USA)

• Research Interests: E-learning, Open Education, 3d Virtual Worlds, Gamification, Problem-Based Learning, Digital Storytelling

4 Axes of Systemic Analysis

1. Strategy / Policy Aims (why?)

2. Organization (who?)

3. Business Model (€€€)

4. Pedagogy / Instructional Design (how?)

Disclaimer: alpha version! (PhD study)

Fast-track version

1 Strategy/Policy Aim

3 Challenges

2 Organization/Business Recommendations

3 Pedagogy Recommendations

Fast-track version

We can produce more, faster and better MOOCs to address skill gaps in Europe by multi-partner

alliances in a (new) crowd-sourced virtual Marketplace for MOOCs (MOOCAgora) for the

development of Quality- and Qualification-focused MOOCs (qMOOCs) that feature

deep learning through Problem-Based Learning and 3d Virtual Immersive Environments

MOOCs Game of the Learning Thrones

MooCS

Higher Education

Inspiration

• 1st (GR) informal Big Open Online Course (BOOC)

• Blended (sync & async)

• 3d VIEs (Second Life)

• 2011-2013

• 220 participants

Seal of Good Teaching Practice

#mathisi20

University of Washington Maya Island, Best Educational Practice in Virtual Worlds Award, VWBPE 2012

I. The Challenges

Winter is coming

#got

MOOCs are

coming

In Higher Education…

Europe & MOOCs (?)

Policy Recommendation

“Address the e-skills shortage challenge amidst of record-high European youth unemployment through open education for flexible mass scale upskilling”

Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 (Jobs & Skills)

Three Challenges for Mass Open Education for Employment

1. Design and offer more MOOCs in more EU countries [more2 MOOCs]

2. Create new models to accelerate MOOC production to address e-skills needs, and finally [faster MOOCs]

3. Facilitate the design of different and/or better MOOCs especially focused for webskills [better MOOCs]

Change?

more2

MOOCs

Faster MOOCs

II. MOOCAgora

MOOCAgora 1/2

• Virtual platform where governments, industries, professional associations, educational institutions and certification providers meet to address skill gaps through open education

• Mechanism for offer and demand of MOOCs for employment (a.k.a. ‘MOOC Store’)

• Based on Open Innovation and online Communities of Practice (CoPs)

MOOCAgora 2/2

• Open Education Ideagora

• Crowd-founded ecosystem

• Multiple partners

• Open biding

• Demand- and Offer-driven

• Qualification-focused

• Accountability

8-stage MOOC for Employment Business Circle

8 Stages

1. Job Market Monitoring

2. Skills Shortage Identification

3. Set Qualification Aims (linked with stage 7)

4. Action Decision

5. qMOOC Design

6. qMOOC Provision

7. Qualifications Certification

8. Job Market Impact

Partner Roles

1. Coordinator

2. Instructional Designer

3. Technology Provider

4. Content Provider

5. Problems Provider

6. Certification Provider

qMOOCs

• New form of MOOCs

• q stands for Qualification and Quality

• Empirical construction of specific qualifications and skills, achieving visible and verifiable learning outcomes

• Flexible multi-partner MOOC development

• Graduates: employable qualified, manifold thinkers

better MOOCs

III. MOOC Pedagogy

Recommendations

1. Deep Learning

• Development of conditionalized knowledge and metacognition through Communities of Practice

• Manifold Thinking Skills (creative, critical, caring and reflective)

2. Problem-Based Learning (PBL/PFE)

i. Begins with a problem

ii. Presents the problem as a real-life situation

iii. Supports students ́manifold thinking and working in a group

iv. Encourages students to identify their own learning needs and take responsibility of their own learning processes

v. Encourages assessment and evaluation of the learning process and its learning outcomes

Mozilla Webliteracy framework

3. 3d VIEs & MOOCs

• Formal and informal learning experiences

• Identity and avatar psychology

• Enhanced, immediate synchronous e-learning interactions

• Experiential and social learning

• Virtual teamwork

• Formation of virtual learning communities

• Effective behavior-changing learning experiences

Synopsis

We can produce more, faster and better MOOCs to address skill gaps in Europe by multi-partner

alliances in a (new) crowd-sourced virtual Marketplace for MOOCs (MOOCAgora) for the

development of Quality- and Qualification-focused MOOCs (qMOOCs) that feature deep learning through Problem-Based Learning and

3d Virtual Immersive Environments

Education in the Digital Era

• High Level Conference Brussels, Dec. 11th 2014

• 3 Themes

– Increasing the Quality of Learning

– Increasing the Impact of Educators (!)

– Addressing Inequalities through Access

• Opportunity to accelerate Innovation!

• Join the preconference online dialog #EdDigEra in Social Media!

Stylianos Mystakidis Learning Innovator

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@stylianosm2

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