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

Thanks!Contact:

Oriol.borras@upm.es

@oriolupm