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OERs and MOOCs the Romanian experience Prof. Radu Vasiu Dr. Diana Andone Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania ICWOAL, Dubai 2014
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OERs and MOOCs – the Romanian experience paper, authors Radu Vasiu, Diana Andone, presented at International Conference on Web & Open Access to Learning, 24-27 November 2014, Dubai, UEA. Using Open Educational Resources (OER) provides opportunities for collaboration both in the classroom and beyond. Started in 2008 and gathering momentum over the past two years, now an online phenomenon, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) reunite different perspectives over a globalized online learning. The paper analyses the use of OER and MOOCs in different study cases in Romanian universities. Several OER initiatives resulted from the over 1000 academia involved in the DidaTec lifelong learning and training for higher education teachers in the technical sciences and engineering field as a training course for university professors in 12 universities, within the aim of improving the use of ICT in higher education. Four universities from Romania started a Romanian MOOC environment, the UniCampus, which provides free access to valuable education in Romanian language, presented by well-known professors. The evaluation and quality assurance challenges of the Unicampus are mainly due to the restrictive educational setting in Romania. Two study cases on blending MOOCs in traditional higher education courses at undergraduate and Master level are also analysed from the impact on students’ motivation. Integrating MOOCs in blended learning empower students with new abilities and requires a new and open teacher model.
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OERs and MOOCs the Romanian experience
Prof. Radu Vasiu Dr. Diana Andone
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
ICWOAL, Dubai 2014
Communication & Technology Renaissance
Sharing & creating knowledge, education,
information, life experiences,
using (free) technology
Take tehnology for granted
Digital students
Digital students
enjoy enhanced interactivity and connections perceive their learning environment as boundless no single approach leave the power of choice of the ‘right one’ to the
student
Open Scholar is someone who makes their intellectual projects and processes digitally visible and who invites and encourages ongoing criEcism of their work and secondary uses of any or all parts of it -‐ at any stage of its development”.
– Gideon Burton Academic Evolution Blog
OPEN SCHOLAR
Open IniEaEves -‐ IniEal MOOCs
• Open University UK (1969 -‐ ) • AllLearn (Oxford, Yale and Stanford collaboraEon) 2000-‐2006
• Fathom (University of Columbia) 2000-‐2003 • MIT OCW (2001 -‐) • OpenCourseWare ConsorEum (1999 -‐
OCW
Ankabut, The UAE Advanced Network for Research & EducaEon
OCW in Timisoara
h[p://www.oerpla^orm.org/ h[p://openeducaEoneuropa.eu/
h[p://www.unesco.org/new/en/communicaEon-‐and-‐informaEon/access-‐to-‐knowledge/open-‐educaEonal-‐resources/
POERUP: Policies for OER Uptake
Inventory of 133 notable OER iniEaEves
worldwide h[p://poerup.referata.com/w/images/
POERUP_D2.3_ComparaEve_Analysis_of_Transversal_OER_IniEaEves_v1.0.pdf
poerup.referata.com
h[p://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page#Map_of_Open_EducaEon_IniEaEves.2C_OER_.28blue.29_and_MOOCs_.28green.29_-‐_clustering_switched_on
OER Ini<a<ves in Romania
CreaEve Commons Romania since 2008 APTI -‐ Romanian AssociaEon for Technologies and Internet Open Data CoalliEon OpenDATA
OER IniEaEves in Romania
Schools, teachers and projects iniEaEves
LMS in UniversiEes in Romania
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Open source -‐ Moodle
Open source -‐ other
Commercial -‐ Blackboard
Commercial -‐ SharePoint
Commercial -‐ other
Strengths in Romanian OER ini<a<ves
Romania is ac<ve in the OER movement: • trainings/courses related to OER and OEP organized for both pre-‐
university and university sectors • proposals at a governamental level related to OER and Web2.0,
more for pre-‐university – but not yet in formal policies • na<onal events related to open resources produced by pre-‐
university teachers; naEonal guides were published too • directories with open resources (more numerous for pre-‐university
level) • projects in development for MOOCs at university level and for
conEnuing educaEon • strong communi<es/events for open source, open access, open data,
open licences.
From POERUP elevator pitch: 26 countries in 26 minutes, slide 11 h[p://www.slideshare.net/wi[haus/poerup-‐elevator-‐pitch
Romanian legislaEon ContradicEons & Challenges
• EvaluaEon & AccreditaEon of educaEon programmes • difficult to get recogniEon for skills that are obtained online or not within a university
• declaraEve open recognizing skills, but in pracEce make it almost impossible to be implemented, under the very inflexible quality assurance rules.
Image: h[p://www.spafuturethinking.com/blog/
DidaTec Project
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“DidaTec – Lifelong learning and training for higher educa<on teachers in the technical sciences and engineering fields” • POSDRU/87/1.3/S/60891 project, co-‐financed by the partner universiEes and by the European Social Fund through the Sectoral OperaEonal Programme for Human Resources 2007-‐2013
• DuraEon 36 months (September 1, 2010 – December 31, 2013)
• 12 University Partners across Romania • 3 implementaEons: TRAINING module, COURSE module, MENTORING module
DidaTec Project
LMS/LCMS
M-‐Learning
WEB-‐CONFERENCE
Media playere (podcast +/-video)
Calculatoare ultra compacte Laptop/ Laptop compact Tablet PC
PDA
Smart phones Dispozitive hibride Telefoane
mobile
WEB 2.0
DidaTec Training project
Impact in Romanian universities: ~800 university academic staff (training 1 & 2), 240 in mentoring
~1000 courses with ICT & OER features
DidaTec parEcipants in UPT
10 3 5
10
20
3 36
9
20
5 5
Total participants Computer science
Physics
Civil Engineering
Chemistry
Electronics and Telecommunications Electrotechinics
Engineering
Management
Mechanics
Mathematics
Communication studies
DidaTec professors use of ICT 1. Blended learning (online support for day Eme
educaEon-‐related acEviEes) 2. blog 3. Forum 4. notes 5. Chat / instant messaging (synchronous
communica<on) 6. Wiki 7. Online knowledge tesEng 8. Online evaluaEon quesEonnaires 9. Online submission of student assignments
(projects, assignments, etc) 10. Calendar/ online <metable 11. OER 12. AnimaEon 13. Online annotaEon (of the type del.icio.us,
citeULike, etc) 14. Social network (of the type Facebook) 15. Podcast and/or audio or video recording of
the didacEc acEvity 16. Video clips (including of the type Youtube) 17. Virtual environments (of the type Second Life) 18. Video conference 19. Audio conference (including Skype) 20. Online educaEonal games 21. Virtual laboratories 22. Smart Board 23. Mobile telephone 24. SMS via mobile phones 25. Mobile phone-‐dedicated applicaEons
DidaTec courses development in Romania (Politehnica University
results)
MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses)
MOOCs
Campus Virtual UPT
UPT – CID Campus Virtual www.cv.upt.ro
Campus Virtual UPT www.cv.upt.ro
Web 2.0 technologies, blended learning
Romanian MOOCs (April 2014 to launch in January 2015)
MOOC in Romania
• Politehnica University of Timisoara • Politehnica University of BucuresE • Technical University of Cluj • Technical University Gh. Asachi Iasi • Civil Engineering University of BucuresE • Technical Military Academy
MOOC in Romania
• Courses in Romanian, online, free access, cerEfied at 2 levels (badge and postgraduate diploma)
• First courses launch January 2015 • Based on a cMOOCs • The postgraduate diploma courses as xMOOCs • Postgraduate level • Training for companies • Integrated in university educaEon
UniCampus
MOOC in Romania
• Subjects from STEM • Course length 5-‐7 weeks • Interac<ve annotated Video, text, exercise, acEviEes, quiz, forum, blog, wiki, OER
• Calendar, course chapters/weeks, discussion forum on topics, assessments, bibliography, (links)
• Meet-‐up area (for f-‐f meeEngs)
UniCampus Video annotaEon
UniCampus Video annotaEon
MOOC in Romania Challenges • Course subject and QA • Trained tutors • Training materials • Copyright – OER (CC) • Students Enrolment and retenEon • CerEficaEon • Online environment developed by UPT team • Sustainability
h[p://mikecaulfield.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/xmooc-‐is-‐a-‐chewy-‐center.png h[p://www.educause.edu/blogs/mcaulfield/xmooc-‐communiEes-‐should-‐learn-‐cmoocs
Blending MOOCs in university courses
„We are taking what we are learning and the technologies we are developing in the large and applying them in the small to create a blended model of educaEon to really reinvent and reimagine what we do in the classroom.”
„. We really have to completely reimagine educaEon, micromanaging it. Even the infrastructure has to change. Everything has to change. We need to go from
lectures on the blackboard to online exercises, online videos. We have to go to interac<ve virtual laboratories and gamifica<on.
We have to go to completely online grading and peer interac<on and discussion boards. Everything really has to change.”
Agarwal, A., 2013. Why massive open online courses (s3ll) ma5er. A TED presentaEon, ted.com/talks/anant_agarwal_why_massively_open_online_courses_sEll_ma[er.html
MOOC in UPT
Variants of blending MOOCs in university courses
Holotescu, C., Grosseck, G., Cretu, V., Naaji, A. (2014). Integra3ng MOOCs in Blended Courses. Conference Proceedings of "eLearning and Socware for Educa<on" (eLSE), Bucharest, April 2014.
announcements
modules
collabora<ve exercises
learning from the stream
mul<media messages
opennes to (small) OER
polls/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f)
valida<ons -‐ interac<ons with users/experts/ groups
Web Programming Blended Course Cirip: msLMS
Holotescu, 2014
Instruc<onal Technologies course
• 27 students -‐ Master in MulEmedia Technologies • MOOCs: Course external resources • 16 courses ( 45% edX, 34% Courses, Udacity) • 19 students finalised the MOOCs • Online discussion in course blog, wiki and face-‐to-‐face • EvaluaEon, Course report • Need for qualitaEve feedback • as a personalizaEon of learning, possibility to choose which of
the learning pedagogies • New experience, will follow new courses, learned new things
Master the technology!
ENGAGE
CONTACT
Dr.eng. Diana Andone Director e-‐Learning Center Email: [email protected] Web: Elearning.upt.ro
UPT – CeL Campus Virtual www.cv.upt.ro
@diando70
h[p://www.slideshare.net/diando70/
Prof.Dr. Radu Vasiu President of the Research Commi[ee of the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Director, MulEmedia Research Center Tel: +40.256 403300 Email: [email protected]
