Local support for MOOC learners. Examples of various initiatives.

1. Facilitated MOOCs and local support
Alastair Creelman
Linnaeus University, Sweden
alastair.creelman@lnu.se
@alacre

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The promise of open

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Those who most need
open education don’t
know it exists

4. MOOCs:
crowded, intimidating,
confusing
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MOOC barriers
MOOCs favour those with
• Study skills
• Digital literacy
• English as native language
• University degree/academic
background
• Good internet access
• Good income
Read:
Socioeconomic Status and MOOC Enrollment: Enriching Demographic
Information with External Datasets.
John Hansen & Justin Reich (Harvard university)

6. Linguistic diversity
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7. Translation – a community approach
• Google Translator Toolkit
• TED Open translation
project
• Khan Academy translation
• Coursera translator
community
• Open EdX
• Amara subtitle editor
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8. Safe bubbles in a sea of
openness
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9. Building communities
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Empathy Security Peer support Privacy

10. MOOC ecosystems
Special interest groupsLanguage
support
Translation
Local study
groups
For-credit spin-offs
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Study skills
Webinars

11. Opening up MOOCs
• Open course platforms to
enable regional adaptations
• Tools to allow smaller
languages to exploit MOOC
movement
• MOOC for development
(Commonwealth of learning)
MOOC4D
• MOOC clubs
MOOC meetups
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12. Wrapped MOOCs
• Combining on-site teaching
and examination with MOOC
• Support in own language
• Applied to local
circumstances
• Cascade model (Laurillard &
Kennedy)
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13. MOOCs for refugees
• Local support
groups, offline
meetups
• Kiron
• MOOCs4inclusion
• MOONLITE
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14. References
• Firmansyah, M. and Timmis, S. (2015) Making MOOCs meaningful and
locally relevant? Investigating IDCourserians—an independent,
collaborative, community hub in Indonesia.
• Stratton, C. and Grace, R. (2016) Exploring linguistic diversity of MOOCS:
Implications for international development.
• Garrido et al (2016) The Advancing MOOCs for Development Initiative: An
examination of MOOC usage for professional workforce development
outcomes in Colombia, the Philippines, & South Africa.
• Bokai, D. (2017). Insights from using Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs) in Refugee Camps. Retrieved Feb 5, 2018, from
https://goo.gl/HUvnqe
• Witthaus, G. (2016) The secret life of face-to-face learning in MOOCs (part
1 and part 2).
• Laurillard, D., & Kennedy, E. (2017). The potential of MOOCs for learning at
scale in the Global South (Working paper series No. 31). London: Centre
for Global Higher Education. Retrieved Feb 5, 2018, from
https://goo.gl/EyDejn
• Damasceno, C. S. (2017). Massive Courses Meet Local Communities: An
Ethnography of Open Education Learning Circles. Raleigh, NC. Retrieved
Feb 5, 2018, from https://goo.gl/B15beq

15. My digital footprints ...
Blog
Corridor of Uncertainty
Twitter
http://twitter.com/alacre
Bookmarks
http://www.diigo.com/user/alacre
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16. Questions?
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