Exlporing New challenges in TELL: Language Learning MOOCs
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Exploring new challenges in TELL: Language Learning MOOCs Dr MARIA A. PERIFANOU PAU Education, Barcelona, SPAIN ACP, GREECE 7 November 2015, 14:00 C
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Exploring new challenges in TELL: Language Learning MOOCs
Dr MARIA A. PERIFANOUPAU Education, Barcelona, SPAINACP, GREECE
7 November 2015, 14:00 CET
Presentation Outline
a) Introductionb) LangMOOC project:background
research and following research steps
c) OEE teacher’s contestd) Open discussion
What is open access?“Open means that anyone can freely access, use, modify, and share for any purpose (subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness).” Opendefinition.org
What is a MOOC?
“A MOOC is a course of study made available over the Internet usually without charge to a very large number of people: anyone who decides to take a MOOC simply logs on to the website and signs up” (Oxford Dictionaries, 2014)
2010
2012
2013
2011
MOOC’s rising
2.8 million
students in March
2013
2014
http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/open_education_scoreboard
Need for MOOLCsLanguage competencies & intercultural skills : key qualifications for living and working in 21st
century
Need for MOOCs related to language education
Web 2.0 participatory, immediate, authentic, engages community
a promising language learning environment
Key factors for successful online language Learning courses learner’s autonomy
social interaction in the target language/exposure
feedback
authentic collaboration building community
Presentation Outline
a) Introductionb) LangMOOC project:background
research and following research steps
c) OEE teacher’s contestd) Open discussion
LangMOOC project: Background research & following research steps
Consortium Action Citizens Partnership (ACP), GR
Sør-Trøndelag University College, HiST, NO
CESIE, IT
Iberica education group (gGmbH), GE
Community Action Dacorum, UK
Research questions
How to design an efficient Language Learning Environment for MOOLCs?
Are there many MOOLC initiatives that could provide a promising Massive Open Interactive Language Learning Environment (MOILLE)?
Research Methodology: STAGES
a) Exploration of current MOOLC initiatives
b) Classification of the MOOLC initiatives according to concrete criteria
c) Evaluation of most representative MOOLC initiatives using the MOILLE framework
d) Analysis of the results & conclusions
Exploration of current MOOLC initiatives1st Stage
1. FutureLearn (UK)2. edX- Lagunita (USA)3. Coursera(USA)4. iversity (GE)5. Udemy.com (USA)6. Alison (IRELAND)7. Study.com (USA)8. Open2Study/class
central (AUSTRALIA)9. COURSEsites / Open
Education Platform (USA)10.Instreamia (USA)11.The Mixxer (USA)12. Open Learning Initiative
(USA) 13.Saylor.org (USA)
14.Federica/EMMA (IT)
15.Miriadax (SP)16.openmooc.org
used by several providers like ”UNED”(SP)
17.France Université Numérique - FUN (FR)
18.iMooX (AU)19.tandemMOOC (SP)
20.MESI MOOCs(RU)
21.jmooc portal: (JAPAN) 3 platforms gacco, OpenLearningJapan and OUJ MOOC
MOOC PLATFORMS: FLL courses
1. Opencourseworld (GE)
2. Openhpi (GE)3. iMOOC (PT), ECO
project4. WeMOOC (sp)5. loggiassist (GE)6. ARLearn (NE)7. MOOChouse (GE)8. EPFL MOOCs
(SW)9. unX (SP)10.Eliademy (FI)
MOOC PLATFORMS – No FLL courses
11.Schoo (Japan)12.EduKart Open ()13. iDESWEB (SP)14.Openclassrooms
(FR)15.Novoed (USA)16.Ca Foscari platform
(IT)17.Acamica
(ARGENTINA)18.Veduca (BRAZIL)19.mooc.kennesaw
(USA)20.Canvas network
(USA)21.Sillages (FR)
1. EMMA2. MOOClist3. Coursetalk 4. Futurelearn5. Oeru 6. OpenupEd7. OECx (EdEx
platform)8. Open Education
Europa Portal9. Class Central10. Academic Earth
MOOC AGGREGATORS/PORTALS
ALTERNATIVE platforms
Peer to Peer University
Classification of the MOOLC initiatives according to concrete criteria2nd Stage
University/Entity (info) Number of Free / Paid language Courses Languages Accreditation mode (Certification/ Badges/Official
credits) Time schedule Pedagogy cMOOC / xMOOC Open source software platforms/Free for teachers
to create their courses
Evaluation of most representative MOOLC initiatives using the MOILLE framework3nd Stage
1. EdX (USA)2. Udemy (USA)3. Alison (IRELAND)4. Open2Study (AUSTRALIA)5. Coursesites (USA)6. Instreamia (USA)7. The Mixxer (USA)8. OLI (USA)9. MOOC.org (UNED)10.Federica-EMMA (IT)
LangMOOC platforms (final selection)
www.udemy.com
www.open2study.com
http://oli.cmu.edu/teach-with-oli/review-our-free-open-courses/
http://www.language-exchanges.org/node/106803
www.instreamia.com/class
www.edx.org
https://www.coursesites.com/https://openeducation.blackboard.com/home?tab_tab_group_id=_12_1
www.alison.com
/https://coma.uned.es/course/espanol-en-linea-ele-uned
www.europeanmoocs.eu
http://platform.europeanmoocs.eu/guide/EMMA-Teacher-Infographic-Guide.pdf
LangMOOCs project 42
LangMOOCs project 43
MOILLE FRAMEWORK - Massive Open Interactive Language Learning Environment
CONTENT: Authentic educational resources; Use of multimedia/tech; Variety of activities that promote all basic language skills & support cultural awareness.PEDAGOGY: Communication (peer-peer, student-teacher, open class community); Collaboration (CL) (group projects, forums etc.); Collective intelligence; Autonomy (Autonomous/Self-paced/SL Learning/Reflection); Engagement-Motivation; Playful/Game based learning; Number of instructors.ASSESSMENT: On going Assessment/ Scaffolding (peer-peer, student-teacher, open, automated) Final Assessment; Evidence-Based improvement (data mining, Analytics); Feedback (comments, reviews).COMMUNITY: Social Community building as Massive & Open (Social Media – third part tools integration & other tech tools).TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Max number of participants, Platform’s performance, Security, Usability). FINANCIAL ISSUES: Profit. Charges for Course or Certification/ Accreditation.
Perifanou & Economides, 2014
Student-Teacher(s)/Student-Student(s)
Teacher-Teacher(s)/Teacher-Student(s)
MOILLE - Authentic Interaction with native speakers
Dynamic interactions betweenparticipants in a MOILLE
Analysis of Results & Conclusions4th Stage
16 #42 MOOC platforms that offer more than 50#100 free Language Learning courses.
<1/2 English Language MOOCs
Great interest for other languages like Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese etc. (Perifanou & Economides, 2014).
Examples: German Language MOOC
won the First Prize for the Best MOOC in the Miriada X platform (Castrillo, 2013)
“I learn” platform (‘Aprendo’/UNED)
2 English courses 78.690 1 German 22.438 students (Read & Rodrigo, 2013).
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Conclusions (1)
Conclusions (2)
“Are there many MOOLC initiatives that could provide a promising Massive Open Interactive Language Learning Environment (MOILLE)”?
NO, just few good examples.
Positive aspects:
Many MOOLCs
are still free have generally good
infrastructureoffer certification
Conclusions (3)
ISSUES
Pedagogical aspect of MOOLCs (no highly interactive, no FL community, no building language skills collectively)
Time cost for educators
Lack of communication tools (synchronous & asynchronous)
ISSUES
Time zone difference
Big dropout rate (Lack of teachers’ support ,different students’ intentions)
Provide feedback with such an unbalanced teacher-student ratio is difficult
Lack of Peer assessment
Suggestions
Create more connectivist MOOLCs
Create highly interactive Language Learning Environments
Keep high students’ degree of motivation & self-direction
• A1 Report: Review of MOOC experiences
01
• A2 Report: MOOCs (goals/methodologies)
01
• A3 Report: Pedagogical framework
01
Intellectual Outputs
52LangMOOCs project
LangMOOCs project 53
• A1 Report: Available language learning MOOCs
02a) Exploration of
current MOOCs for language learning
b) Classification of the MOOCs according to
concrete criteria
c) Evaluation of most representative MOOCs using
the MOOILLE framework
d) Analysis of the results and conclusions
Intellectual Outputs
LangMOOCs project 54
• A1 Lang MOOC toolkit (Version1)03
• A2 Lang MOOC toolkit (Version2)03
Intellectual Outputs
LangMOOCs project 55
• OERs based on Authentic Materials 04
A1 ENGLISH
A2 GREEK
A3 GERMAN
A4 ITALIAN
A5 NORWEGIAN
Intellectual Outputs
LangMOOCs project 56
• Pilot MOOC for Language Learning05A1 MOOC
Platform set up/localisatio
nA5 ENGLISH Pilot MOOCA2 GREEK
Pilot MOOCA3 GERMAN Pilot MOOCA4 ITALIAN Pilot MOOCA6
NORWEGIAN Pilot MOOCA7 REPORT
_PILOT FEEDBACK
A6 Technical video tutorials
for MOOC pilots
Intellectual Outputs
Presentation Outline
a) Introductionb) LangMOOC project:background
research and following research steps
c) OEE teacher’s contestd) Open Discussion
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Presentation Outline
a) Introductionb) LangMOOC project:background
research and following research steps
c) OEE teacher’s contestd) Open Discussion
References & ResourcesPerifanou M. & Economides A. (2014). MOOCs for Language Learning: An effort to explore and evaluate the first practices. In Proceedings of the INTED2014 conference held in Valencia, Spain 8-12 March 2014. Full-text Perifanou M. (2014). How to design and evaluate a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for Language Learning.In Proceedings of the eLSE14 conference held in Buchurest, Romania, 24-25 April 2014.
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