For some time now, universities have been making a significant effort to develop Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). One way to leverage the effort invested in developing and carrying out MOOCs is to use the online courses or parts of them in traditional brick-and-mortar courses that are delivered on campus. There are several learning design strategies that consider the combination of face to face (f2f) learning in university courses with one or more MOOCs, though teachers are generally only familiar with the most typical approaches – for instance, the flipped classroom. The variety of combinations and possibilities offered by this type of education constitutes a new learning design space whose full potential is underexplored. The aim of this research is to present and explore the affordances offered by an authoring tool devoted to support the design of blended uses of MOOCs and its impact in the resulting learning designs. A workshop has been carried out with the objective of supporting participants in exploring the possibilities of using MOOCs in combination with the courses typically offered on university campuses. Participants were mainly university teachers as well as academic and administrative staff responsible for supporting the development of MOOCs. Results indicate that the authoring tool can support the process of learning design involving blended learning scenarios with MOOCs and can contribute to expanding the knowledge of this type of learning in teachers.

1. Laia Albó & Davinia Hernández-Leo
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
The Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference 2016
laia.albo@upf.edu / @LaiaAlbo
Albó, Laia & Hernández-Leo, D. (2016). Blended learning with MOOCs : towards supporting
the learning design process. In G. Ubachs & L. Konings (Eds.), The Online, Open and Flexible
Higher Education Conference 2016 (pp. 578–588). Rome (Italy): EADTU, October 2016.
Blended learning with MOOCs : towards supporting
the learning design process
Please cite this work as:
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2. Introduction
Blended learning with MOOCs
1. To leverage all the effort of developing MOOCs by
Universities.
2. To provide professors new online teaching tools and
resources.
3. New learning design space.
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3. Challenges
• Teachers acting as learning designers
need support during the design process.
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Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Hilliger, I., Alario-Hoyos, C., Delgado Kloos,
C., Rayyan, S., (2016). Describing MOOC-based Hybrid initiatives:
The H-MOOC Framework, eMOOCs Conference 2016, Graz.
• More hybrid initiatives
share practices and results.

4. H-MOOC framework
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Reference
Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Hilliger, I., Alario-
Hoyos, C., Delgado Kloos, C., Rayyan, S.,
(2016). Describing MOOC-based Hybrid
initiatives: The H-MOOC Framework,
eMOOCs Conference 2016, Graz.
Remote
Course
f2f
Regular
Course

5. H-MOOC framework + 4 models
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Reference
Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Hilliger, I., Alario-
Hoyos, C., Delgado Kloos, C., Rayyan, S.,
(2016). Describing MOOC-based Hybrid
initiatives: The H-MOOC Framework,
eMOOCs Conference 2016, Graz.
MOOC as
Replace-
ment
MOOC as
Driver
MOOC as
a Service
MOOC as
an Added
Value

6. H-MOOC framework + 8 models
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Reference
Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Hilliger, I., Alario-
Hoyos, C., Delgado Kloos, C., Rayyan, S.,
(2016). Describing MOOC-based Hybrid
initiatives: The H-MOOC Framework,
eMOOCs Conference 2016, Graz.
Canned dig.
teaching with
remote
tutoring
Canned dig.
teaching with
f2f tutoring
Remote
Course
Flipped
Classroom
Local Digital
Prelude
f2f
Regular
Course
Canned
teaching in
f2f course
Canned
teaching with
remote course
Remote
tutoring in
remote course
Remote
tutoring with
f2f course

7. Context of current study
Workshop during the UCATx conference 2016:
1. Design a BL university course using MOOC(s).
2. Assuming that the MOOC(s) used are already available.
3. Provide support based on the H-MOOC framework.
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8. Participants
• 24 participants.
• Connected and
experienced with
MOOCs.
• Interested in learning
how to use MOOCs in
BL - HE courses.
8
2h workshop - 7workgroups

9. Participants
9
52%
33%
5% 5% 5%
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
University staff
responsible for
supporting the
development of
MOOCs
University
professors
University
students
Researchers University staff
with no direct
responsibility
for MOOCs

10. Purpose of current study
1. Emerging variations of blended learning with MOOCs.
 From the higher education context.
2. Design elements to help teachers during the blended
learning design process.
 Including existing frameworks, models…
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11. Materials
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(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)

12. 12
Procedure
Five-step workflow:

13. Results
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14. Results
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15. Results
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16. Results
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17. 17
Providing design support from an holistic framework and
models…
 had an impact during the design process
Results
Models have been useful help me in redesigning or being convinced with my LD
Level of agreement # %
5. Strongly agree 6 30
4. Agree 8 40
3. Neither agree nor disagree 4 20
2. Disagree 1 5
1. Strongly disagree 1 5
Mean: 3.85 out of 5 n=20 100

18. 18
Providing design support from LDs examples of the models…
 had an impact on the final designs
Results
Models selected after the step (e) Frequency Percentage
Accumulated
percentage
Flipped classroom (FC) 5 25 25
Local digital prelude (LDP) 4 20 45
Between FC and LDP 4 20 65
Canned teaching in f2f course 4 20 85
Remote tutoring with f2f course 1 5 90
Remote tutoring in remote course 1 5 95
Between Canned digital teaching with remote tutoring and
Canned digital teaching with f2f tutoring
1 5 100
Total 20 100

19. 19
LD’s positions regarding the 8 models

20. Conclusions
Providing information regarding the ongoing design can:
1. Support the process of learning design  Design Thinking
2. Contribute to expand the knowledge of this type of
learning to professors.
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Future work:
• Hybrid MOOC frameworks depending on the educational
contexts and stakeholders.
• Case studies  models.

21. Thank you very much for your attention!
Laia Albó & Davinia Hernández-Leo
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
laia.albo@upf.edu / @LaiaAlbo
October 19th , 2016
This research is partly funded by RecerCaixa (CoT project) and the Spanish Ministry of
Economy and Competitiveness under RESET (TIN2014-53199-C3-3-R) and the Maria de
Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme (MDM-2015-0502).
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