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Artículo presentado en el congreso TEEM en Salamanca. This paper presents a case of success MOOC (massive open online courses) that focuses on learning communities needed to achieve level of self-interaction of the cMOOCs, giving best results to promote knowledge also contributed by students. This MOOC was awarded with the first place of the “Iberoamerican Award Miríada X SEGIB”. This study reveals how the use and monitoring of virtual communities complemented by external tools, with engaging innovative methodologies and resources, has favoured these successful results. Publication: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2669893
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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
INTRODUCTIONVirtual 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
Community Se
lection
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: 1145Followers: 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
Thanks!Contact:[email protected]@oriolupm
