1. MOOCs in Universities
Steve White
@S_T_White
Manuel León
@mleonurr
Su White
@suuki
An analysis of MOOC Discourse
as Represented in HE Magazines

2. Overview
 Who are we?
 What did we do?
 How did we do it?
 What did we find?
 What did we conclude?
 What will we do?
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3. Who we are
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STEVE WHITE
@S_T_WHITE
MANUEL LEÓN
@MLEONURR
SU WHITE
@SUUKI
Web Science PhD students Associate Professor
ECS

4. Institute of Learning Innovation
and Development (ILIaD)
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Prof. Hugh Davis
(Director)

5. Activities
MOOC Datasets management
Data Analysis
Curation:
Academic Literature (Mendeley)
Journalistic literature (Scoop.it)
Blog
Training
Publications
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6. MOOC Observatory Curation Activity
Mendeley Group:
● Nearly 300 academic
sources about MOOCs
● All tagged and
classified
● Open Group
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Scoop.it Page
● Daily Curation
● MOOC News
● Journalistic Articles
https://www.mendeley.com/groups/2754851/mooc-observatory/
http://www.scoop.it/t/moocs-and-heis/

7. What did we want to know?
 Main internal stakeholders’ concerns about
MOOCs
 Motivations for developing MOOCs
 Implications of developing MOOCs
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8. What have others done?
 Systematic literature reviews (Liyanagunawardena et. al.,
2013; Mohammed et. al., 2014)
– Assessment & Intercultural communication as key issues
 News media discourse on MOOCs (Bulfin et.al. 2014;
Kovanovich et.al. 2015)
– Degrees of acceptance of MOOCs within professionals &
general public
 Sentiment analysis (BIS, 2014)
– Skepticism vs Enthusiasm in literature
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9. What did we do?
 We studied MOOC discourses in HE Magazines
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10. What did we asume?
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Ask, inform
Read, inform
Specialist Media
Universities
Internal Stakeholders

11. How did we do it?
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12. How did we do it?
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13. What did we find?
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14. What did we conclude?
 Speculation is decreasing
 Action and adaptation is increasing
 New teaching approaches
 New relationships and dynamics
 More interest in educational innovation than
marketing, business models or social mission
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15. What we will do?
 Keep reading
– and populating the database
 Analysing the discourse evolution over time
 Analysing thematic differences between
academic cultures (Europe, America, Asia,
Africa)
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16. Thanks!
 Any questions?
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