This document discusses efforts to provide integration and access to higher education for refugees in Germany through massive open online courses (MOOCs). It notes that over 1 million refugees registered in Germany in 2015 and about 30% of Syrian refugees had a university entrance qualification. Several initiatives were launched including untutored online courses through integration.oncampus.de and a tutored German pronunciation MOOC for Arabic speakers called #deu4arab that had over 2,000 learners. The document emphasizes the need for accessible platforms on mobile devices, multilingual support including Arabic, and hiring Arabic-speaking assistants to help refugees access educational opportunities.

1. integration
(not only) via MOOCs
Creating Perspectives through Education, Brussels
Slides: http://bit.ly/daad16-refugees
Anja Lorenz
Fachhochschule Lübeck

2. Applications for asylum & registrated refugees in Germany
bpb (09.02.2016): Zahlen zu Asyl in Deutschland http://www.bpb.de/politik/innenpolitik/flucht/218788/zahlen-zu-asyl-in-deutschland#Antraege

3. Facts(Germany 2015)
1,091,894 registered refugees
476,649 applications for asylum
university entrance qualification
- 16% of all refugees
- 30% of Syrian refugees
Federal office of Migration and Refugees
https://www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/Meldungen/DE/2016/201610106-asylgeschaeftsstatistik-dezember.html

4. our mission
OPEN UP
access to higher education
FAST & WITHOUT bureaucracy

5. Mission agenda
1. un-tutored courses
2. tutored courses and MOOCs
3. networking with other initiatives
→ first help becomes part of our institutional
strategy

6. integration.oncampus.de
from 0 to 13 first (un-tutored) courses in 2 weeks

7. 1st
courses
self-registration
→ no certificates or
documents needed
quickly opened-up from
existing courses
→ untutored

8. free of charge for
anybody: refugees
and regular students
ECTS credits by FH
Lübeck
no exam fee for refugees
just started summer term 2016
2nd
level
tutored courses

9. 3,600 registrations Everyone is welcome!

10. German pronunciation training for (Syrian) learners
#DEU4ARAB MOOC

11. https://mooin.oncampus.de/deu4arab

12. #deu4arab
6 weeks MOOC
team of Prof. Jürgen Handke (Marburg University)
today 2.368 learners 1,640 at course start – 2,138 at the end
850 facebook group members
data from 10th
May 2016

13. Videos to practice German pronunciation (Arabic/German comparison)

14. Videos to practice German pronunciation with German keywords

15. having one’s pronunciation checked via uploaded voice
recordings

16. Digital Badges & Certificates
Simple imitator, Language juggler,
Tone expert, Communication specialist

17. It’s all on YouTube(?)
Reach relevant community

18. 148.086 suscribers
promotion video
published at January 23th
MaroWeltShow

19. registered learners of the deu4arab MOOC (23.01.2016: 167 | 24.01.2016: 611)

20. Map of learners (May 10th
2016)

21. Residence status in Germany (answers to the survey at course start, N=171)
43.6% running
asylum procedure
41.5% entiled to
asylum in GER
10.6% on the jouney
but not in GER
4,3% others

22. County of birth (answers to the survey at course start, N=150)
Syria
Algeria
Morocco
Egypt
Saudi-Arabia
Palestine
Others
50.7%

23. Current country of residence (answers to the survey at course start, N=144)
Germany
Algeria
Malaysia
Egypt
Syria
Palestine
Others
55.9%

24. integration is no competition
Networking 4 refugees

25. iMOOX & mooin

26. Lübeck, Kiel, Maro, VHS (Germany), iMOOX (Austria), OpenClassrooms (France)

27. partners of kiron university: MOOC Makers meet refugee activists

28. Proud to be part of it!
(some more time for platform features?)
Network 4 refugees

29. Thank you!
Creating Perspectives through Education, Brussels
Slides: http://bit.ly/daad16-refugees
Anja Lorenz
Fachhochschule Lübeck
Anja Lorenz
@anjalorenz
anja.lorenz@oncampus.de
http://about.me/anjalorenz

30. Barriers against access to higher education
Federalism
Verification of university entrance qualification
Unsure perspective of remaining at a location
Language
Lorenz, Wulff, Wittke (2016): #refugeesWelcome an der Fachhochschule Lübeck. Schnelle und unbürokratische
Bereitstellung von Bildungsangeboten. GML²: Grundfragen Multimedialen Lehrens und Lernens in Berlin (im Druck).

31. mooin
own MOOC plattform
since 03/2015
8 MOOCs in 2015
40 MOOCs planned
until 2020
https:// . .de

32. What does it need to offer a MOOC for refugees?
Feature check

33. refugees use mobile devices
responsive platform

34. Access to mooin(19.05.2015)
desktop:
78,46%
mobile:
12,65%
tablet:
8,89%

35. Access to mooin(01+02/2016)
tablet:
37%
mobile:
12%
desktop:
48%

36. support of Arabic means RTL
multilingual, Google Translate

37. Multilingual surface & integrating Google translate

38. bilingual content

39. What does it mean to offer a MOOC for refugees?
Reality check

40. Bug fixing

41. understand standard replacements | translate add-ons

42. direction of navigation in RTL-languages

43. direction of navigation in RTL-languages

44. Review, maintenance, learners’ support, social networks
Arabic-speaking student
assistents

45. Arabic-speaking support needed → Arabic-speaking assistants/lecturers hired

46. Arabic-speaking support needed → Arabic-speaking assistants/lecturers hired

47. Use keyboards with Arabic symbols