This document summarizes the discussion from a design webinar on MOOCs. It addresses several topics: the role of external stakeholders in MOOC design; opportunities for gamification at different levels (macro, meso, micro); whether collaboration/social learning should always be designed for (considering personality traits, learning styles, time); and whether a taxonomy of MOOC types is needed. The conclusion is that while a taxonomy may be useful at the macro and meso levels, more openness and flexibility is better at the micro level of individual MOOC design.

1. ROUND TABLE
Design webinar week
Thursday 18th April 2019
Tiberio Feliz Murias (UNED)

2. HOW DOES EACH EXAMPLE FROM
WEDNESDAY RELATE TO THE QA
FRAMEWORK?
• International framework
• Supranational interests
• Participatory for institutions and companies external
to the university
• External evaluation for funding
• Plurality of cultures and legislations
• Seeking cohesion and progress

3. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF EXTERNAL
STAKEHOLDERS IN THE MOOC DESIGN
PROCESS?
• Experience
• Competence
• Transfer
• Professionalism

4. WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR
GAMIFICATION IN MOOCS? (1)
• Macrolevel (stakeholders and international institutions)
• Management
• Openness
• Transfer
• Mesolevel (HEI)
• Management
• Innovation
• Transfer
• Microlevel (Specific MOOCs)

5. WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR
GAMIFICATION IN MOOCS? (2)
• Microlevel (Specific MOOCs)
• Couse design, as a whole
• Specific actions in the course
• Goals
• Contents
• Activities
• Methodology
• Interactions
• Assessment
• Benefits
• Difficulties

6. WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR
GAMIFICATION IN MOOCS? (3)
• Microlevel (Specific MOOCs)
• Benefits:
• Motivation
• Engagement
• Experience
• Permanence
• Activity
• Satisfaction
• Difficulties:
• Time-Workload
• Frivolity-Academicism

7. SHOULD WE ALWAYS DESIGN FOR
COLLABORATION / SOCIAL
LEARNING? [PATRICIA & ANA]
• We have to consider different:
• Personality traits: sociability
• Learning styles: impulsive or reflective
• Available time
• Type of task

8. DO WE NEED A TAXONOMY OF
TYPES OF MOOCS?
• Several problems:
• Is there a closed taxonomy?
• Could be useful in macro and meso levels
(international and HEI)
• Microlevel better:
• Openness and flexibility at microlevel
• Good design framework

9. See
you!