Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)

1. Manuel Castro, PhD (mcastro@ieec.uned.es)
UNED – Spanish University for Distance Education
Full professor
IEEE Fellow member
1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories

2. Education and progress in the use of Learning
Technologies
>>> Engineering Education explosion Accreditation
Blended Learning
◦ Personalization
◦ On-line
◦ Collaborative
◦ Project based
◦ Problem based
◦ Ubicuous
Technology use
Social media
Flipped Classroom
Open:
◦ OER & OCW
◦ MOOC
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 2 of 25

3. OCW and Web 1.0 Education
• MIT model
– Educommons
• OpenUK
model
• Universia
model
• UNED model
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 3 of 25

4. • Evolution of communications
• Evolution of social media and learning
• Evolution of mobility and ubiquity in
teaching and learning
• Evolution of collaborative environments
– Khan Academy
• Evolution of Standards:
– Learning Objects (L.O.) / Metadata
Teacher motivation
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 4 of 25

5. Web 2.0 Education
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 5 of 25

6. An open adaptive environment
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 6 of 25

7. MOOCs – Massive Open Online
Courses
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 7 of 25
Evolution to the openess:
Learning Objects (units) >>> Open Course Ware
(contents) >>> MOOC (delivery)
• Course design – vídeo paradigm – evaluation –
contents
• Difference between OPEN and FREE
• Author grants and use
• Copyright / Copyleft (Creative Commons)
• Too much students
• Any place access online

8. • Massive or not massive ?
• Open or not open ?
• Online or not online ?
• Courses or not courses ?
• SPOC / MOOL
MOOCs – Massive Open Online
Courses
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 8 of 25

9. Massive Open Online Courses
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 9 of 25

10. • By choosing a curriculum:
• Interesting for the students
• Teaching work / Educational organization
• Recording materials
• Activities of tutoring, collaboration,
assessment, evaluation
• And the platform
Courses organization
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 10 of 25

11. • Teaching staff
Materials, videos, academic
organization
Forums / collaborative activities /
follow-up
Evaluation
Animation (Animator)
Content Curation (Curator - Tutor)
Roles and implications
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 11 of 25

12. • Universia (Miriadax)
• First edition award
• Certification and work of the teaching
staff
• Visibility
• UNED Abierta
• Others (mainly from the US and the UK)
Consortiums – Platforms
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 12 of 25

13. Open learning communities
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 13 of 25
MITx offers a portfolio of MIT courses
open to the global virtual learning
community

14. Massive On-line Open Courses
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
COURSERA
brings courses
as a platform
for Universities:
Princeton,
Stanford, …
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 14 of 25

15. Massive Open Online Courses
Udacity  offers
courses where
students can solve
challenges and
problems / projects of
world-renowned
teachers
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 15 of 25

16. Massive Open Online Courses
Udemy  A global marketplace for learning and
teaching online where students are mastering new skills
and achieving their goals by learning from an extensive
library of over 45,000 courses taught by expert instructors
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 16 of 25

17. Massive Open Online Courses
edX was founded by Harvard University
and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
- These and other institutions collaborate
for improving learning and teaching from
a virtual campus focused on the online
learning community
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 17 of 25

18. Massive Open Online Courses
IEEEx is the IEEE approach to MOOCs
IEEE Collabratec
as collaborative
platform
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
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19. Online Education
UNED
Abierta
(marketplace
in Spanish
of education
resources)
(COMA)
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 19 of 25

20. Online Education
Universia
(Miriadax)
(MOOC /
COMA
Cursos
Online
Masivos
Abiertos)
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 20 of 25

21. - Karma and activity in the courses
- Follow up
- Badges (digital certificates)
- Identity
- "Classic" Certificates
- Tests (exams) and evaluation
Certifications
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 21 of 25

22. Self-signed certificate and
identity?
How do certifications work in
open environments?
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 22 of 25

23. - Corporate image
- Corporate interest (awards, innovation
projects, networks, etc.)
- Dissemination and public image
- Certifications
- Financing
Feasible business models and
teacher participation
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 23 of 25

24. The Learning Pyramid - William
Glasser - 1990 – 1998
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
Slide 24 of 25
Final Conference, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan
29 September 2015
Face-to-face
Traditional
Education
MOOC
PBL
Blended Learning

25. Manuel Castro, PhD (mcastro@ieec.uned.es)
UNED – Spanish University for Distance Education
Full professor
IEEE Fellow member
1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs)
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories