EMOOCs 2014 Research Track 1_Leony_Scaffolding

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Towards an Outcome-based Discoveryand Filtering of MOOCs using moocrank

Israel Gutirrez-Rojas, Derick Leony , Carlos Alario-Hoyos,Mar Prez-Sanagustn, Carlos Delgado-Kloos

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Lausanne, 10th February 2014
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Large MOOC offerings that hinder thediscovery of relevant MOOCS

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28668804@N00/2842301423


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Different descriptions to defineLearning Outcomes (LO)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rnair/379547060

Learn to Program @ Coursera

Programming Languages @ Udacity


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Taking advantage of previous work

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rnair/379547060

statements of what a learner knows,understands and is able to do on

completion of a learning process

Outcomes Best practices and recommendations Open ICOPER Content Space

Concepts Intended Learning Outcomes Achieved Learning Outcomes


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Need for a common taxonomy

Focusing on intended LO places learners needs in center ofprocess (Crespo et al., 2010)

Integration of a common taxonomy as a solution to improveawareness of MOOCs and platforms

Survey of 70 people based in Spanish showed than more than

half didnt know common platforms

How to facilitate outcome-based discovery of MOOCs?



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Requirements specified

Identify MOOC learning outcomes and map them withtaxonomy

Manage users profiles based on intended LO

Support the discovery of MOOCs based on profiles

Filter MOOCs based on users profiles



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Architecture



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Learning outcomes profile

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jepoirrier/349613923

Taxonomy: CSC2013 in InLOC


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MOOC recommendation

http://www.flickr.com/photos/howardlake/11314620234

Coursera

edX Udacity


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Discussion

Existing solutions for MOOC aggregation (ClassCentral,CourseTalk)

Other solutions propose learning paths (MyEducationPath,SkillAcademy)

Ease of application for other domains

Classification approach is applicable to other resourcesbesides MOOCs

Crowdsourcing approach brings pros and conshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/boellstiftung/6322064224


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Next steps

Include social features: Rank courses Comment about experience Feedback about professor, contents and learning pace

Improve usability of the tool

Collecting dependencies between courses

Exploring application for learning at the workplace

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobanblack/3251282019


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Documents

EMOOCs 2014 Research Track 1_Leony_Scaffolding