"Opening up Education: The LangMOOC challenge" �

Opening up Education:
The LangMOOC
challenge
Keynote Presentation
Dr Maria Perifanou
CONTA Lab, University of Macedonia,
Thessaloniki (GR),
PAU Education (SP),
ACP, (GR)

Adaptive E-
Learning & E-
Assessment -
Prof. A.A.
Economides,
CONTA lab
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Near to Thessaloniki…
Agio OrosChalkidiki
Vergina - Phillip’s Tomb Mountain Olimpos
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http://kek.upatras.gr/courses/blended-elearning-
trainers-training/
University of Patras

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http://www.activecitizens.eu/

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http://mariaperif.wixsite.com/telresearcher/home

a) Introduction
b) EU Opening up
Education
challenges & OEE
Portal
c) MOOCs & the
LangMOOC
project

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“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

Open Educational Resources:
No fee, no subscriptions, no tuition, no registrations, no obligations->
No cost for the user of the resource!

HOW CAN WE
MAKE BEST USE
OF OERS?
“Open educational
resources will be easy to
revise or remix technically if
they are meaningfully
editable (like a web page),
access to the source file is
provided (like an HTML file),
can be edited by a wide
range of free or affordable
software programs (like an
RTF file), and can be edited
with software that is easy to
use and is used by many
people”. (Hilton et.al.)

http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/OER_teacher_education_resources

2010
2012
2013
2011
MOOC’s rising
2.8
million
students
in March
2013
2014

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2016: A year of massive change in the online
learning landscape. Going on eight years since
MOOCs first entered the scene, massive open
online courses have conquered the
educational world
https://www.onlinecoursereport.com/state-of-
the-mooc-2016-a-year-of-massive-landscape-
change-for-massive-open-online-courses/
https://www.onlinecoursereport.com/state-of-the-mooc-2016-a-year-of-massive-landscape-
change-for-massive-open-online-courses/

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Prediction by the head of the
Coursera online network (20
million students):
“within five years many top
universities would be
offering fully accredited
undergraduate degrees
taught entirely online”
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-37975359

29https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/cambridge-english-ielts
FUTURE LEARN has over 3 million registered learners studying over 6.5 million courses.

“Oxford University
partnered with the
Harvard University
and Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology
is going to run for
first time in January
2017 a MOOC in
economics using the
the online platform
edX”
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-37975359

a) Introduction
b) EU Opening up
Education
challenges &
OEE Portal
c) MOOCs & the
LangMOOC
project

Good Practices Section
http://openeducationeuropa.eu/share/good-practices

Open Education Europa
Good Practices Section
Sharing of Good Practices remains open
after the Teachers Contest

OEE European Education Pioneers Community
http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/groups/european-education-pioneers

Open Education Europa Tour
Workhops Online/F2F
• Ibiza, SP (Online): 10 SEP 2015
• Athens, GR (F2F): 19 SEP 2015
• London, UK (F2F): 29 SEP 2015
• Kavala, GR (F2F): 24 OCT 2015
• Timisoara, RO (Online): 26 OCT 2015
• Valletta, MT (F2F): 29 OCT 2015

• Part of the Opening Up Education initiative
• A Collaborative Network of OE institutions
• A Community of Practitioners working
together
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openeducationeuropa.eu

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http://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/strategic-framework/education-
technology_en

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A framework proposed by EU:
Tool for higher education
staff to help them open up
education & think through
strategic decisions:
 pedagogical approaches,
 collaboration between
individuals and
institutions,
 recognition of non-formal
learning
 different ways of making
content available. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-
research-reports/opening-education-support-framework-higher-
education-institutions

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OpenCases: Case
Studies on Openness
in Education
 A review of
literature on open
education
 Nine in-depth
case studies of
higher education
institutions.
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-
technical-research-reports/opencases-case-studies-
openness-education

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https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/funding_en

Need for MOOLCs
Language 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

 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 questions
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References:
Perifanou 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.

Key factors for successful online
language Learning courses
 learner’s autonomy
 social interaction in the
target language/exposure
 feedback
 authentic collaboration
 building community 57

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Massive Open Interactive Language
Learning Environment framework

MOILLE FRAMEWORK - Massive Open
Interactive Language Learning Environment
Authentic educational resources;
Use of
multimedia/tech
CONTENT
Variety of activities that
promote all basic language skills
& support cultural awareness.

Communication
(peer-peer, student-
teacher, open
community)
Number of
instructors
PEDAGOGY
Collective
intelligence
Playful/Game
based learning;
Engagement
& motivation Autonomy
(Autonomous/Self-
paced/SL
Learning/Reflection
)

On going assessment/
scaffolding (peer to peer,
open, automated,
student-teacher).
Final
Assessment
ASSESSMENT
Variety Evidence based
improvement (data
mining, Analytics)
Feedback,
reviews

Authentic educational
resources;
Use of
multimedia/tech
COMMUNITY
Social community building
with Social Media/3nd part
tools

Max number of
participants
Platform’s
performance
TECHNICAL
INFRASTRACTURE
Security
Usability

Profit: Charges for course
certification/ Accreditation
Financial
Issues
Extra services

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

 University/Entity
 Number of Free of charge language
Courses
 Language
 Certification/ Badges/Official credits
 Fixed time session
 cMOOC / xMOOC
Classification of MOOLC initiatives
according to concrete criteria

Research Findings 2014:
Current situation of MOOLCs
• 16 MOOC platforms that
offer more than 50 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).

 What is mostly important for successful
MOOLCs is to:
“create a highly interactive & collaborative
learning environment that can support
community building not only between peers
& teachers but also with native speakers of
the target language”.
Final conclusions

Consortium
Action Citizens Partnership (ACP), GR
Norwegian University of Science andTechnology, NO
CESIE, IT
Iberica education group (gGmbH), GE
Community Action Dacorum, UK

• A1 Report: Review of
MOOC experiences01
• A2 Report: MOOCs
goals/tech/assessement01
• A3 Report: Pedagogical
framework01
Intellectual Outputs O1

• A1 Report: Available
language learning
MOOCs
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a) 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 02

a. Exploring current MOOLCs
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b. Classification of MOOLCs (1)
LangMOOCs project 74

c. Evaluation of 6 MOOLCs using
MOILLE

• A1 Lang MOOC Toolkit
(Version1)03
• A2 Lang MOOC Toolkit
(Version2)03
Intellectual Outputs

• OERs based on Authentic
Materials04
A1 ENGLISH
A2 GREEK
A3 GERMAN
A4 ITALIAN
A5 NORWEGIAN
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• Pilot MOOC for Language
Learning05
A1 MOOC Platform set up/localisation
A5 ENGLISH Pilot MOOC
A2 GREEK Pilot MOOC
A3 GERMAN Pilot MOOC
A4 ITALIAN Pilot MOOC
A6 NORWEGIAN Pilot MOOC
A7 REPORT _PILOT FEEDBACK
A6 Technical video tutorials for MOOC
pilots
LangMOOCs project

FIRST STAGE RESEARCH RESULTS (1)
67MOOC
platforms/provider
s
 34/67 European platforms
 29/67 offered a MOOLC
during 2015 or planning
one for 2016
 15/29 MOOLCs are
European

18/29 MOOCplatforms
are or use free &
open source
software.
 18/29 platforms are or use
free & open source
software (Open EdX LMS,
Moodle, OpenMOOC,
Wemooc, Google Course
Builder)

Language
instructors/
organisations can
build their own
MOOLCs with cloud
based MOOCs, open
source LMS
1) mooc.org by EdX
2) Difundi
3) Udemy
4) Open Learning Initiative
(OLI)
5) The Mixxer (pair the
students with another
class–Skype)
6) Instreamia
7) Coursesites/Open
Education by Blackboard
8) Alison
9) Eliademy

18/29 MOOC
platforms/providers
offered language
courses of 20+ different
languages
 21/29 English language courses
 12/29 Spanish
 12/29 Chinese/Mandarin
 6/29 French
 5/29 Italian, German & Arabic
 4/29 Portuguese
 3/29 Japanese, Russian, Turkish
& Finnish
 2/29 Brazilian dialect
 1/29 Norwegian, Catalan, Greek,
Dutch, Swedish, Irish, Korean,
Frisian, Hindi & Malaysian

4/29 MOOC
platforms support
Connectivism
1) Mixxer
2) Instreamia
3) OpenLearning
4) TandemMOOC

http://www.language-
exchanges.org/node/106803
Authentic oral communication with native
speakers via the free voice over IP
phone program Skype (i.e. Mixxer platform).

Visualization of daily learning progress based on different language skills and
progress report that presents all activities and rates.

authentic interactive videos:
- test learners’ listening comprehension via simple
knowledge checks ( a fill-in-the-blank listening problem)
- possibility to learners to ask for their peers’ or their
teacher’s feedback in every step of the activity.

/https://coma.uned.es/course/espanol-en-linea-ele-uned
Gamification/Rich automated award system:
a series of 35 badges (3 levels of badges: gold,
silver, bronze) for assessing participants’
learning activities and their social behavior in
the
discussion forum.

www.edx.org
Authentic communication: Thematic chats or face
to face instant communication among language peers
and teachers using Google hangouts in groups of
max 10 (predefined topic, time and type of
communication such as a self presentation activity
using text, live video or audio.)

CONCLUSIONS (1)
A big increase of MOOLC
initiatives
2014-> 16 (Perifanou &
Economides, 2014)
2015 -> 29
The number of all MOOC
platforms has been doubled:
67 MOOC platforms by the end
of 2015

CONCLUSIONS (2)
There is not one ideal
MOOLC platform that
can offer a successful
“Massive Open Online
Interactive Language
Learning Environment”.
- A big variety of positive
functionalities offered by
each MOOC platform
-Teachers with their creativity
can make the best use of
these tools.

CONCLUSIONS (3)
OPEN ISSUES:
 interoperability
 language teachers’ new role
 time/implementation costs for educators
 creation of OERs
 creation of group activities
 authentic communication with native speakers
 creation of playful & enjoyable activities
 personalized language learning
 variety of assessment (peer to peer, teacher to
student )

CONCLUSIONS (4)
CONNECTIVITY/SHARING: instructive designers, developers &
language teachers will design, implement, evaluate & share
different MOOLC scenarios and their good ideas/experiences!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/EdDigEr
aConference/

a) Introduction
b) Opening up
Education: An EU
challenge
c) Open Education
Europa Portal
d) MOOCs & the
LangMOOC project
e) Discussion

Thank you all!

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