The ECO project aimed to demonstrate the potential of open educational resources and MOOCs to widen access to education through an innovative approach. It involved 22 partners across 6 European countries and created a unified portal and federated platform for 16 MOOC pilots and one MOOC on creating MOOCs. The project emphasized social and connectivist pedagogies, inclusion, accessibility, and continuous improvement over its three years. Evaluation found high overall user satisfaction, that most learners completed over half the courses, and positive feedback on resources, support, and interactions.

2. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile,
Ubiquitous and Open Learning
European project funded by European
Commission in Competitiveness and
innovation framework programme
22 PARTNERS – 6 COUNTRIES
http://ecolearning.eu/

3. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
• The project will demonstrate the potential of OER and MOOC
• to widen access to education and to improve the quality
• for lowering or remove technological barriers in learning processes
• for users with special needs or at risk of exclusion.
• The expected impact of ECO
• create their own online courses and other open educational resources
and distribute them through the open learning platform
• ECO pilots will pay special attention to training European teachers.
• preparing certified teachers
• Use state-of-the-art technologies
• merged MOOCs platforms (based on individual platforms and resources
provided by individual partners in the project),
• the combined and cross-border piloting activities in all the hubs involved
in the project.
GOALS

4. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Steps
• Design Pedagogical Model
• Determinate Technical
Functionalities and platforms
• Create one portal
• Create 16 sMOOCs pilots
• Create One MOOC
supporting how to create MOOC
• Run on 3 iterations
• Make creating own MOOC by
participant/group of participants
• Improvements
Continuous Improvement and
Quality

5. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Pedagogical Design sMOOC
cMOOC ‘Focus on community and connections’
social ‘learning experience marked by social interactions and participation’
Pedagogical approach: connectivism, situated learning, social constructivism
Inclusion + Ubiquitous and mobile + Accessibility (special needs)
learner-centred - flexibility - digital inclusion
Open licence policy
Wide variety of target populations
Diversity of purposes and local, contextual implementations

6. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Functionalities
Peer to peer evaluation
Social network in and out the MOOC
Accessibility for special needs
Forum - Group forum
Learning pathway
Badges
Intercultural communities
Several Languages
Micro-blogging
Geolocalisation
Gamification
Certification
Facilitations
Events online

7. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
An innovative approach
MOOCs platforms federation  Decentralised model
Single entry point (unified course catalog, log in and user profile) to a
number of different MOOCs platforms (OpenMOOC, edX, weMOOC,
LogiAssist, AR Learn, iMOOC).
Around 17.000 users by now and growing…

8. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
One portal - 5 platforms - 6 languages
https://portal.ecolearning.eu/
16 MOOCs Pilots

9. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
A transversal MOOC
Facilitating the creation of new courses by any teacher involved in ECO
6 languages
10 institutions authors
Goals :
•Facilitating the creation of new courses by any
teacher involved in ECO
•Using ECO partners experiences and practices
•Develop social learning with communities,
accessibility, social learning and functionalities
•This MOOC will encourage participants to participate
in ECO project and create their own MOOC

10. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Project evolution
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
≈10,000 users ≈20,000 users ≈40,000
users
ECO sMOOC
pedagogical model
Innovative technological
approach: Platforms
federation. Plug&join
ECO. Scalability!
First edition of sMOOCs
ECO image and diss.
strategy
Revision of technological
model (Y2-3)
Platform fine-tuning (Y2-
3)
sMOOC step by step
Dissemination!
Communication!
Alliances!
Growth to massive
(users)
Dissemination!
Communication!
Alliances!
Viral growth (users and
courses)
Exploitation and
sustainability

11. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Project evolution

12. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
A project constently in evolution
Analysis and Improvement of each pilot intermediate results
Evaluation assessment of the final results
AGILE method
• constant improvement on the product
• constant interaction between pedagogical design and technological
functionalities

13. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Final considerations
• ECO was defined as an extremely ambitious project
• An extremely motivated group of professionals has made it
possible.
• ECO’s methodology has been based on a strong self-criticism
spirit throughout the whole project in order to reach high quality
results and overall project.

14. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
LEARNER PROFILES
Gender
Academic studies
Area of employment

15. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
OVERALL USER SATISFACTION
Q26. HOW DO YOU RATE YOUR
OVERALL EXPERIENCE OF THE
MOOC COURSE THAT YOU DID?
Q24. IF YOU WERE TO CONSIDER THE
COURSE IN GENERAL, YOU WOULD
SAY THAT YOU LEARNED…
Q31. WOULD YOU BE
WILLING TO TAKE
ANOTHER ECO MOOC IN
SATISFACTION ON LEARNER SUPPORT
BY THE TEACHING STAFF

16. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
COURSE COMPLETION & ADEQUATION
Q28. APPROXIMATELY, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE COURSE DID YOU COMPLETE IN THIS EDITION?
Q14.1. IN YOUR OPINION, TO WHAT EXTENT THE COURSE YOU HAVE CHOSEN…
[… IS DESIGNED TO ACHIEVE THE STATED OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE?]

17. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
ASSESSMENT ON RESOURCES AND
SUPPORT & INTERACTION
Q17.1. HOW WOULD YOU
RATE THE FOLLOWING
CONTRIBUTIONS: [SOCIAL
INTERACTION IN GENERAL
AND THE RECEIVED
SUPPORT BY OTHER
STUDENTS.]

18. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT
Q19. PLEASE, INDICATE WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING DEVICES WAS MAINLY
USED BY YOU TO ACCESS THE COURSE.
Technical problems experienced

19. sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCs
Incorporation of new participants
with their own specificities
Adeline Bossu, Divina Frau-Meigs
10 June 2015, Barcelona

20. sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCs –
INCLUSION
To Integrate and participate in a sMOOC
Inclusion with innovation
• Participant must feel
– Welcome,
– At the right place
– Concerned
– Understood
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21. sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCs – Inclusion
• Welcome in new learning context
– MOOC Introduction,
– Identification of MOOC actors (autors, facilitators…)
– Get out hierarchy and previous pedagogical model
⇒Get close
• Creation communities
– Group creation
– Discovery of other participants
=> Sense of community, similarity
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22. sMOOCs for All, All in sMOOCs
Welcome + Actions
Proposals and Tools to encourage this feeling and start
action-interaction in
– Synchronous and asynchronous way
– In new cultures, environnement
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Micro-blog
Badges
karma

24. 24
Social network inside and outside

25. 25
News and newsletter

26. 26
Forum
Group Forum
Facilitation

27. 27
External tools:
Live events online
hangout
tweet chat