Keynote presentation at 'Breaking Barriers – Embracing Literacy through Digital Media organised by the Directorate for Lifelong Learning and Early School Leavers', Valetta, Malta, 30 November-4 December 2015. More info: https://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/content/breaking-barriers-embracing-literacy-through-digital-media

1. Dr MARIA A. PERIFANOU
PAU Education, Barcelona, SPAIN
CONTA Lab, University of Macedonia
ACP, GREECE
3 December 2015, 9:30 - 12:30 CET

2. www.openeducationeuropa.eu
http://paueducation.com/en

3. Language Massive Open Online Courses
LangMOOCs www.langmooc.com
http://www.activecitizens.eu/

4. http://ereadcost.eu/index.php/en/
http://conta.uom.gr/conta/

5. a) Introduction
b) Language Learning & Literacy
c) MOOCs & LangMOOC project
d) Hands on session: Designing Interactive
Exercises for MOOLCs
e) Open discussion

6. In a rapidly changing world.....
there is a big need for multilingualism &

7. Multi-literacies

8. Literacy, the ability to read and
write, gives one the command of
a native language for the purpose
of communicating. The involves
skills in learning, speaking,
reading, and writing. (Jackman et
al.2014. Early Education
Curriculum: A Child’s Connection to
theWorld)
What is literacy?
Language can be defined as
human speech, the written
symbols for speech, or any means
of communicating. (Jackman et
al.2014. Early Education
Curriculum: A Child’s Connection to
theWorld)
What is language?

9. What is learning?
‘Learning is an active process
of constructing rather than
acquiring knowledge and
instruction is a process of
supporting that construction
rather than communicating
knowledge ’ [Duffy, T. M. &
Cunningham, D. J , 1996].
Successful learning involves a
mixture of work and fun

10. https://k12.thoughtfullearning.com/FAQ/what-are-literacy-skills
Literacy skills: Gain knowledge through
different mediums of communication+ Create
knowledge

11. • Web 2.0 services : personalized radio, sharing music,
photos, videos, bookmarks, news, knowledge,
multimedia material
multiple ways to introduce language learners to a
new language & culture with interesting fun activities
Language skills: use web 2.0 tools to
practice`& develop language skills

12. https://k12.thoughtfullearning.com/FAQ/what-are-literacy-skills
Who?- What?-To whom?-Which medium ? What’s the purpose?
Literacy skills: Can you analyse a
message?

13. Literacy skills/language skills:
Why are important?
 enter into and progress in the workplace;
 function in society;
 prepare for post-secondary education
 Support self development
 Feeling active member of the global community

14. a) Introduction
b) Language Learning & Literacy
c) MOOCs & LangMOOC project
d) Hands on session: Designing Interactive
Exercises for MOOLCs
e) Open discussion

18. 2010
2012
2013
2011
MOOC’s rising
2.8
million
students
in March
2013
2014

20. http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/open_education_scoreboard

23. www.openeducationeuropa.eu

24. 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

25.  learner’s autonomy
 social interaction in the
target language/exposure
 feedback
 authentic collaboration
 building community

26. a) Introduction
b) Language Learning & Literacy
c) MOOCs & LangMOOC project
d) Hands on session: Designing Interactive
Exercises for MOOLCs
e) Open discussion

27. www.langmooc.com

28. Consortium
Action Citizens Partnership (ACP), GR
Sør-Trøndelag University College, HiST, NO
CESIE, IT
Iberica education group (gGmbH), GE
Community Action Dacorum, UK

29.  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)?

30. 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

31. 1st Stage

34. 1. FutureLearn (UK)
2. edX- Lagunita (USA)
3. Coursera(USA)
4. iversity (GE)
5. Udemy.com (USA)
6. Alison (IRELAND)
7. Study.com (USA)
8. Open2Study/class central
(AUSTRALIA)
9. COURSEsites / Open
Education Platform (USA)
10. Instreamia(USA)
11. The Mixxer (USA)
12. Open Learning Initiative
(USA)
13. Saylor.org (USA)
14. Federica/EMMA (IT)
15. Miriadax (SP)
16. openmooc.org used by
several providers like
”UNED”(SP)
17. France Université
Numérique - FUN (FR)
18. iMooX (AU)
19. tandemMOOC (SP)
20. MESI MOOCs (RU)
21. jmooc portal: (JAPAN)
3 platforms gacco,
OpenLearningJapan
and OUJ MOOC
MOOC PLATFORMS: FLL courses

35. 1. Opencourseworld (GE)
2. Openhpi (GE)
3. iMOOC (PT), ECO project
4. WeMOOC (SP)
5. loggiassist (GE)
6. ARLearn (NE)
7. MOOChouse (GE)
8. EPFL MOOCs (SW)
9. unX (SP)
10. Eliademy (FI)
MOOC PLATFORMS – No FLL courses
11. Schoo (Japan)
12. EduKart Open (USA)
13. iDESWEB (SP)
14. Openclassrooms (FR)
15. Novoed (USA)
16. Ca Foscari platform (IT)
17. Acamica (ARGENTINA)
18. Veduca (BRAZIL)
19. mooc.kennesaw (USA)
20. Canvas network (USA)
21. Sillages (FR)

36. 1. EMMA
2. MOOClist
3. Coursetalk
4. Futurelearn
5. Oeru
6. OpenupEd
7. OECx (EdEx platform)
8. Open Education Europa
Portal
9. Class Central
10. Academic Earth
MOOC AGGREGATORS/PORTALS
ALTERNATIVE
platforms
Peer to Peer
University

37. 2nd Stage
 University/Entity (info)
 Number of Free / Paid language Courses
 Languages
 Accreditation mode (Certification/ Badges/Official
credits)
 Time schedule
 Pedagogy cMOOC / xMOOC
 Open source software platforms/Free for teachers
to create their courses

39. 3nd Stage

40. 1. EdX (USA)
2. Udemy (USA)
3. Alison (IRELAND)
4. Open2Study (AUSTRALIA)
5. Coursesites (USA)
6. Instreamia (USA)
7. The Mixxer (USA)
8. OLI (USA)
9. MOOC.org (UNED)
10.Federica-EMMA (IT)
LangMOOC platforms (final selection)

41. www.udemy.com

42. www.open2study.com

43. http://oli.cmu.edu/teach-with-oli/review-our-free-open-courses/

44. http://www.language-exchanges.org/node/106803

45. www.instreamia.com/class

46. www.edx.org

47. https://www.coursesites.com/
https://openeducation.blackboard.com/home?tab_tab_group_id=_12_1

48. www.alison.com

49. /https://coma.uned.es/course/espanol-en-linea-ele-uned

51. www.europeanmoocs.eu

52. http://platform.europeanmoocs.eu/guide/EMMA-Teacher-Infographic-Guide.pdf

53. 53LangMOOCs project

54. CONTENT: Authentic educational resources; Use of multimedia/tech;
Variety of activities that promote all basic language skills & support
cultural awareness.
PEDAGOGY: Communication (peer-peer, student-teacher, open class
community); Collaboration (CL) (group projects, forums etc.); Collective
intelligence; Autonomy (Autonomous/Self-paced/SL Learning/Reflection);
Engagement-Motivation; Playful/Game based learning; Number of
instructors.
ASSESSMENT: On going Assessment/ Scaffolding (peer-peer, student-
teacher, open, automated) Final Assessment; Evidence-Based
improvement (data mining, Analytics); Feedback (comments, reviews).
COMMUNITY: Social Community building as Massive & Open (Social
Media – third part tools integration & other tech tools).
TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Max number of participants, Platform’s
performance, Security, Usability). FINANCIAL ISSUES: Profit. Charges for
Course or Certification/ Accreditation.
Perifanou & Economides, 201454

55. Student-Teacher(s)/Student-
Student(s)
Teacher-Teacher(s)/Teacher-Student(s)
MOILLE - Authentic Interaction with
native speakers
Dynamic interactions between
participants in a MOILLE

56. 4th Stage

57.  16 #42 MOOC platforms
that offer more than
50#100 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).
57

58.  “Are there many MOOLC initiatives that
could provide a promising Massive Open
Interactive Language Learning Environment
(MOILLE)”?
 NO, just few good examples.

59. Positive aspects:
Many MOOLCs
 are still free
 have generally good infrastructure
 offer certification

60.  Pedagogical aspect of MOOLCs (no highly
interactive, no FL community, no building
language skills collectively)
 Time cost for educators
 Lack of communication tools (synchronous &
asynchronous)

61.  Time zone difference
 Big dropout rate (Lack of teachers’ support
,different students’ intentions)
 Provide feedback with such an unbalanced
teacher-student ratio is difficult
 Lack of Peer assessment

62.  Create more connectivist MOOLCs
Create highly interactive Language Learning
Environments
 Keep high students’ degree of motivation &
self-direction

63. • A1 Report: Review of
MOOC experiences01
• A2 Report: MOOCs
(goals/methodologies)01
• A3 Report: Pedagogical
framework01
Intellectual Outputs
63LangMOOCs project

64. • A1 Report: Available
language learning
MOOCs
02
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
64LangMOOCs project

65. • A1 Lang MOOC toolkit
(Version1)03
• A2 Lang MOOC toolkit
(Version2)03
Intellectual Outputs
65LangMOOCs project

66. • OERs based on Authentic
Materials04
A1 ENGLISH
A2 GREEK
A3 GERMAN
A4 ITALIAN
A5 NORWEGIAN
Intellectual Outputs
66LangMOOCs project

67. • 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
Intellectual Outputs
67LangMOOCs project

68. a) Introduction
b) Language Learning & Literacy
c) MOOCs & the LangMOOC project
d) Hands on session: Designing Interactive
Exercises for MOOLCs
e) Open discussion

69. 4 steps…
…new ideas…

70. Visit the google doc
(http://tinyurl.com/zybsfza) & open the
sheet 1: Structure of a MOOLC
Complete the form
Any questions?
Time: 15 min

71. Open the sheet 2: Exploring ICT
Tools
Can you add any tools that you know
and/or use?
Any questions?
Time: 15 min

72. Open the sheet 3: Building Basic
Language Skills via interactive e-
activities
Choose tools for building basic
language skills.
Describe in 2-3 lines
an activity.
Any questions?

73. Italian culture
5 groups
Create a story
Start a story
Publish in ‘Incontri italiani 2’
&

74. 2nd activity: ‘Film scripts’
3nd step
Performance of the scenes

75. 3nd activity: ‘Italian music’
’
2nd step
watch the video that has chosen
and then write and post the verses
of the song (1st is the winner)
4th step
Sing the
songs!!!

76. Check the list of activities added in
the sheet 3: Building Basic Language
Skills via interactive e-activities
Choose your favourite activities
for your MOOLCs (Sheet 1)
Any questions?
Time: 15 min

77. a) Introduction
b) Language Learning & Literacy
c) MOOS & LangMOOC project
d) Hands on session: Designing Interactive
Exercises for MOOLCs
e) Open discussion

78. Questions?

79. Thank you all!
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