This document summarizes a workshop that aimed to explore how MOOCs can help unemployed youth in Europe. A study was conducted that included a literature review of MOOCs, a survey of over 2,800 individuals, and expert reviews. The survey found high demand for MOOCs in web design and a need for hands-on, practical courses that develop job skills. Recommendations included improving the mapping of supply and demand of MOOCs, establishing quality standards, and ensuring courses acknowledge learner demands for practical, skills-based content with opportunities for feedback and networking.

1. Can MOOCs save Europe's
unemployed youth?
Workshop at EC TEL 2014
16 September 2014

2. http://goo.gl/PstFYi

3. aims to strengthen the business
environment for web and ICT
entrepreneurs so that their ideas and
business can start and grow in the EU.
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/startup-europe

4. http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/groups/startup-europe-using-moocs-
foster-web-talent-europe

5. Startup Europe - MOOCs for web
talent network
CONNECT:
• Interact with other MOOC providers and web entrepreneurs
• Join discussions that help influence Europe’s policy makers
DISCUSS:
• Give your opinions to help shape upcoming webinars
• Attend events that address key industry issues
• Gain valuable insights from other MOOC developers and web
entrepreneurs
EXPLORE:
• Access resources to help you develop your own MOOC
• Monitor the supply and demand of MOOCs related to web talent in
Europe, giving you an academic insight and business advantage

6. So far...
• Desk research
• Survey
• Webinars
• Knowledge base
• Network
• Report
• This workshop

7. Coming up..
Edu Track @ SLUSH, 18-19 Nov, Helsinki

8. Today
• Findings from the StartUp Europe MOOC study
• Paper session
• Discussion
Lunch
• Platform panel:
FUN, OpenHPI, OpenClassrooms
• Paper session
• Response: Davinia Hernández-Leo & Carlos
Delgado Kloos

9. The Study
• Desk research
– Literature review: what is a MOOC?
– Mapping existing MOOCs
• Survey
– 2,800 response, 211 countries,
• Expert review
– Pierre Dillenburg, Doug Belshaw, Hannes
Klöpper, Pierre-Antoine Ullmo

10. Desk Research

12. CC Mathieu Plourde, 2 013 - flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/8620174342/

13. Survey
• February 26th 2014 - April 13th 2014
• 2,371 complete responses
731 students, 315 developers, 306 entrepreneurs, 443
academics, 103 leaders of innovation support
programs, 90 corporate managers, 39 MOOC
providers, 11 venture capital investors
• Offered in 4 different languages:
English (1,939 not complete responses), German (406),
French (332), and Spanish (193).

14. Survey Findings

15. Survey Findings

16. Issues..

17. Barriers: providers

18. Business Models

19. Recommendations: policymakers
• Entrepreneurs & learners want hands-on,
practice / project based offerings which
develop specific skills, suitable for on-the-job
professional development. The supply
does not always fit this model.
• Abundance of provision, yet learners are
struggling to find the MOOCs they need.

20. Wanted
• Mapping of supply & demand
• Quality standards
• Massive pedagogies
• Search
• Acreditation

21. Recommendations: providers
• Acknowledge demand
• Know your users
• Get the business model right
• Get the pedagogy right
• Avoid "deep fried mars bar"
• Look at the spectrum

22. What they want
“large focus on practical aspects such as programming
project”
“follow-up and application of the learned skills through
practical, long-term projects”
“Don't get too academic. Learners are looking for practical
workflows”
“The practical aspects of the course are as important as the
technical contents. Group courses so one can follow a
career path. Share information with job seekers.
Promote research oriented courses”
“Ability to practice skills and get (automated) feedback;
community that encourages peers to work together on
projects; instructor expertise and online teaching skills”

23. “(...) course content to be designed in consultation with
related job oriented entities who would be ready to
absorb the participants (who have a lot of spare time at
their disposal) upon successful completion of the
MOOC”
“Certification of the skills acquired is the most relevant topic
on free MOOCs. Second from some MOOCs it's
important to qualify the source of knowledge, they need
to be more specific in the field and if the course can
contact some professional from the area to have a look
into the students creations it would totally be a HUGE
plus since it could turn into a job contact or a network
contact”

24. Emerging themes
• Growing eco-system of campus, blended, hybrid and
open online courses, which would leverage the overlaps
and synergies between different modes of delivery
• Rise in awareness to issues of learning design,
evaluation, assessment and quality control, which are
much more salient in on-line courses
• Importance of accreditation and verification schemes,
specifically practice-based schemes (e.g. Portfolios)
which would allow learners to demonstrate the skills they
acquired to potential employers.

25. http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/news/moocs-are-high-demand-especially-
web-design-according-new-ec-study
http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/groups/startup-europe-using-moocs-
foster-web-talent-europe