The document discusses the ECO project, which designed social MOOCs (sMOOCs) to promote digital inclusion. It utilized a model of e-presence incorporating cognitive, social, and designed presence. The project involved 17 pilot sMOOCs across 5 platforms and 6 languages. Participants could become e-teachers by completing the "Step by Step" sMOOC. The sMOOCs aimed to facilitate reflexive learning pathways and collaboration through social features. Ensuring e-quality involved peer, self, and supervisor assessments along with sustainable and scalable templates, learning spaces, and analytics tools.
Using Teams for a COMP-PLETE distance learning experience
Cecilia Goria and Sally Hanford, University of Nottingham
In this contribution, a pedagogical model based on sense of community, participation and openness will be discussed as highly significant in shaping a distance learning educational experience and the role of Microsoft Teams as hub for communication, collaboration, and increased productivity will be presented.
The model, named COMP-PLETE, took shape inside a professional development programme designed following the guidelines delineated by the cognitive and experiential approaches to course design (Toohey’s (1999) typology); it promotes a combination of constructivist and experiential learning to define the role of content knowledge, teachers, learners and their interactions.
The outcome of COMP-PLETE is a highly participatory model for online education which, based on the synergy between community, openness, multimodality, participation, personalization, learning, experience and technological-enhancement provides an academic experience that empowers the learners to act as agents in determining personal learning goals, in shaping the community of practice within and beyond the boundaries of the programme and in informing the content and structure of their studies.
In this scenario, the functionalities offered by Microsoft Teams play a key role in supporting COMP-PLETE’s pedagogical goals. Teams bridges the geographical gap between our distance learners and the institution by creating a dynamic learning environment which fosters connections, communication and participation, strengthening, as a result, the learners’ commitment to the programme.
The development of COMP-PLETE will be outlined and discussed and suggestions will be advanced for building technology-enhanced strategies to ensure the sustainability and transferability of the model. The role of Teams in achieving COMP-PLETE’s goals will be illustrated.
Presentation given at http://www.dur.ac.uk/lt.team/blog/?page_id=1526 of the use of the open source WordPress blogging platform used in the MA in Urban Design Programme at Newcastle University.
http://nclurbandesign.org
Joint presentation given by Georgia Giannopoulou (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape) and Ashley Wright (Quality in Learning and Teaching) of Newcastle University, UK.
This document summarizes trends in virtual and online education. It discusses the growth of K-12 online learning and the variety of online education models available. It also outlines emerging technologies being used in online learning like learning management systems, video conferencing, videos, blogs, wikis, virtual worlds and mobile learning. Research shows that online learning can be as effective as face-to-face learning when there is adequate learning time, engaging curriculum, collaborative opportunities and pedagogical support. The document advocates giving learners control over their interactions with media and opportunities for reflection to enhance online learning.
Embedding technology in higher education: the challenges of policy and practiceRichard Hall
This document discusses challenges related to embedding technology in higher education, including tensions between policy and practice, individual and institutional perspectives, and approaches to curriculum design. It notes the need to develop pedagogy that promotes learner-centered and social approaches through co-governance rather than focusing solely on technology capabilities. Examples from DMU illustrate attempts to foster collaboration, social learning, and learner integration through practices like mentoring, learning logs, and virtual laboratories, though disconnects between expectations and innovations remain an issue.
Open formations networked thinking and tinkering across learning contextsRikke Toft Noergaard
Slides form my talk at the conference "Rethinking Educational Ethnography: the learning context", Copenhagen 3.-4. june 2014 entitled:
"Open Formations – Networked Thinking and Tinkering:Rethinking the People, Processes and Products of Learning Contexts as Open Formations"
The talk outlines some of the central potentials of open formation courses, products, processes and organizational settings. Furthermore, inherent empowering, emancipatory and transformative potentials in allowing students to be self-reliant designers/researchers partaking in actual participatory academic communities through submitting research for actual conferences, intervening in and transforming actual learning contexts for themselves as well as for the subjects they design for and through being invited to showcase their didactic designs online and offline to international research communities are also sketched out. Moreover, the
students’ (auto)ethnographic quests to break free of their professional practice (as teachers, pedagogues and practitioners of learning) to become adventurous designers/researches that set their own course and curriculum, take place through breaking out of institutional settings and into international research communities and operative learning contexts such as communal schools or museums are hinted at. In conclusion, the students ‘movemental’ journey towards becoming open formations
through confidently taking their own places and paces within and across educational settings and learning contexts are adapted into a model for thinking abut digital technologies, learning processes, contexts, people and own professional practices as open formations.
How to recognize (almost) anything with digital badges - Fab14 FranceGeoffroi Garon-Épaule
1. Geoffroi Garon-Épaule is a PhD candidate researching digital badges and their uses in education, workplaces, and society.
2. Digital badges can recognize both formal and informal learning through skills, experiences, and levels of achievement represented in an encrypted digital file.
3. Badges have a variety of uses including evaluating skills, communicating accomplishments, structuring learning pathways, and motivating learners. They are increasingly used in education, job training, and social/volunteer contexts.
The document discusses the shifting digital landscape of education for today's youth. It notes that young people are coming of age in an environment with new online contexts for communication, expression, and learning. It also discusses key concepts like social media, virtual worlds, blended learning, digital literacy skills that go beyond just ICT skills, and opportunities to build on traditional skills and focus more on community involvement through informal learning networks.
Using Teams for a COMP-PLETE distance learning experience
Cecilia Goria and Sally Hanford, University of Nottingham
In this contribution, a pedagogical model based on sense of community, participation and openness will be discussed as highly significant in shaping a distance learning educational experience and the role of Microsoft Teams as hub for communication, collaboration, and increased productivity will be presented.
The model, named COMP-PLETE, took shape inside a professional development programme designed following the guidelines delineated by the cognitive and experiential approaches to course design (Toohey’s (1999) typology); it promotes a combination of constructivist and experiential learning to define the role of content knowledge, teachers, learners and their interactions.
The outcome of COMP-PLETE is a highly participatory model for online education which, based on the synergy between community, openness, multimodality, participation, personalization, learning, experience and technological-enhancement provides an academic experience that empowers the learners to act as agents in determining personal learning goals, in shaping the community of practice within and beyond the boundaries of the programme and in informing the content and structure of their studies.
In this scenario, the functionalities offered by Microsoft Teams play a key role in supporting COMP-PLETE’s pedagogical goals. Teams bridges the geographical gap between our distance learners and the institution by creating a dynamic learning environment which fosters connections, communication and participation, strengthening, as a result, the learners’ commitment to the programme.
The development of COMP-PLETE will be outlined and discussed and suggestions will be advanced for building technology-enhanced strategies to ensure the sustainability and transferability of the model. The role of Teams in achieving COMP-PLETE’s goals will be illustrated.
Presentation given at http://www.dur.ac.uk/lt.team/blog/?page_id=1526 of the use of the open source WordPress blogging platform used in the MA in Urban Design Programme at Newcastle University.
http://nclurbandesign.org
Joint presentation given by Georgia Giannopoulou (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape) and Ashley Wright (Quality in Learning and Teaching) of Newcastle University, UK.
This document summarizes trends in virtual and online education. It discusses the growth of K-12 online learning and the variety of online education models available. It also outlines emerging technologies being used in online learning like learning management systems, video conferencing, videos, blogs, wikis, virtual worlds and mobile learning. Research shows that online learning can be as effective as face-to-face learning when there is adequate learning time, engaging curriculum, collaborative opportunities and pedagogical support. The document advocates giving learners control over their interactions with media and opportunities for reflection to enhance online learning.
Embedding technology in higher education: the challenges of policy and practiceRichard Hall
This document discusses challenges related to embedding technology in higher education, including tensions between policy and practice, individual and institutional perspectives, and approaches to curriculum design. It notes the need to develop pedagogy that promotes learner-centered and social approaches through co-governance rather than focusing solely on technology capabilities. Examples from DMU illustrate attempts to foster collaboration, social learning, and learner integration through practices like mentoring, learning logs, and virtual laboratories, though disconnects between expectations and innovations remain an issue.
Open formations networked thinking and tinkering across learning contextsRikke Toft Noergaard
Slides form my talk at the conference "Rethinking Educational Ethnography: the learning context", Copenhagen 3.-4. june 2014 entitled:
"Open Formations – Networked Thinking and Tinkering:Rethinking the People, Processes and Products of Learning Contexts as Open Formations"
The talk outlines some of the central potentials of open formation courses, products, processes and organizational settings. Furthermore, inherent empowering, emancipatory and transformative potentials in allowing students to be self-reliant designers/researchers partaking in actual participatory academic communities through submitting research for actual conferences, intervening in and transforming actual learning contexts for themselves as well as for the subjects they design for and through being invited to showcase their didactic designs online and offline to international research communities are also sketched out. Moreover, the
students’ (auto)ethnographic quests to break free of their professional practice (as teachers, pedagogues and practitioners of learning) to become adventurous designers/researches that set their own course and curriculum, take place through breaking out of institutional settings and into international research communities and operative learning contexts such as communal schools or museums are hinted at. In conclusion, the students ‘movemental’ journey towards becoming open formations
through confidently taking their own places and paces within and across educational settings and learning contexts are adapted into a model for thinking abut digital technologies, learning processes, contexts, people and own professional practices as open formations.
How to recognize (almost) anything with digital badges - Fab14 FranceGeoffroi Garon-Épaule
1. Geoffroi Garon-Épaule is a PhD candidate researching digital badges and their uses in education, workplaces, and society.
2. Digital badges can recognize both formal and informal learning through skills, experiences, and levels of achievement represented in an encrypted digital file.
3. Badges have a variety of uses including evaluating skills, communicating accomplishments, structuring learning pathways, and motivating learners. They are increasingly used in education, job training, and social/volunteer contexts.
The document discusses the shifting digital landscape of education for today's youth. It notes that young people are coming of age in an environment with new online contexts for communication, expression, and learning. It also discusses key concepts like social media, virtual worlds, blended learning, digital literacy skills that go beyond just ICT skills, and opportunities to build on traditional skills and focus more on community involvement through informal learning networks.
The ECO project aimed to broaden access to education through open online courses (MOOCs) across multiple European languages and platforms. It involved 22 partners and created 17 pilot MOOCs reaching over 37,000 users. The project developed a connected learning model incorporating connectivism, situated learning and socio-constructivism. It established a single portal providing access to multiple MOOC platforms and languages, and aimed to increase participation, quality and cost-effectiveness of online education across Europe.
The ECO Project for E-teaching: social MOOCs at the crossroads of actors’ CO...Adeline Bossu
The document discusses the ECO project, which aims to broaden access to education through social MOOCs on multiple platforms. It provides an overview of the project details, including its goals, pedagogical approach, and partnerships. The ECO project uses an innovative decentralized model, connecting learners to various MOOC platforms through a single portal. It has created over 30 social MOOCs across 6 languages with nearly 50,000 users. A key aspect of the project is its focus on intercultural collaboration through courses like the "Step By Step" MOOC, which brings together partners from different countries and cultures to foster social learning.
Promotion of social inclusion and intercultural values through ECO decentrali...EADTU
The document discusses a webinar about sustainable business models for MOOCs and the need for cross-institutional cooperation. It focuses on interculturality and social inclusion, which are central to the ECO project. Intercultural intelligence is distributed across countries and cultures. The webinar addresses starting points for reflection on aligning altruistic values with project monetization. It also discusses ensuring accessibility and social inclusion through open and decentralized learning models that break down cultural barriers and follow open web standards.
The document discusses a webinar about sustainable business models for MOOCs and the need for cross-institutional cooperation. It focuses on interculturality and social inclusion, which are central to the ECO project. Interculturality involves collective intelligence distributed across countries and cultures. The webinar addresses starting points for reflection on reconciling altruistic values with project monetization and their impact on sustainable business models. It also discusses MOOCs approached from a corporate social responsibility perspective.
The ECO project aims to demonstrate the potential of open educational resources and MOOCs through a European partnership. The project will create an open learning platform to provide online courses and resources and help teachers create their own materials. It involves 22 partners across 6 countries and seeks to improve access to education through innovative technologies. The project will design pedagogical models, develop technical platforms, run pilot MOOCs and courses, and evaluate results to continuously improve the learning experience for users.
ECO MOOC offering at decentralised MOOC level: services on pedagogical approa...EADTU
Presentation by Divina Frau-Meigs (U Paris 3-Sorbonne) in the context of ECO webinar on Sustainable business models for MOOCs: the need for cross-institutional cooperation, 28 September 2016
The document describes the ECO project, which aims to broaden access to education in Europe through short modular open online courses (sMOOCs). It discusses the project's features and goals. The main points are:
- The ECO project has 22 partners across Europe and a budget of over 4.6 million euros. It aims to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of teaching through sMOOCs.
- As of now, the project has hosted 22 sMOOCs in 6 languages attracting over 37,000 users across its 6 partner platforms.
- The sMOOCs are designed to be accessible on multiple devices and platforms. They follow socio-constructivist and connectivist
This document discusses a workshop on sMOOCs (small MOOCs) held in Barcelona. It includes an agenda for the workshop with time allocated for presentations and discussion. The ECO project is presented, which aims to create open online courses using mobile and ubiquitous technologies to improve access. Key aspects discussed include the pedagogical model, assessment and certification processes in sMOOCs, and strategies for incorporating new participants and ensuring inclusion.
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.
Dezvoltarea Eco-sistemului Educatie Digitala UPTDiana Andone
Dezvoltarea Eco-sistemului Educatie Digitala UPT, experienta UPT in constructia educatiei digitale
prezentata de Diana Andone, UPT
la Workshopul "Experiența privind educația online la nivel universitar în România. Provocări și perspective viitoare: organizata de Asociatai Tine de Noi, 9 iulie 2020, online
Eleonora Pantò - Using Social Media effectively in your MOOCEUmoocs
This presentation discusses using social media effectively in MOOCs. It recommends using social media to increase followers, attract attention to course subjects, and create a community of learners to support informal learning. The document outlines nine steps to design a MOOC and describes various social media tools that can be used, including their pros and cons. It provides examples of social media use from previous MOOCs and discusses how social media can help foster a sense of belonging among students to reduce attrition.
This document discusses Marta Cáceres-Piñuel's PhD research on MOOCs and their role in creating open communities of knowledge. Her hypothesis is that MOOCs enable more than just massive online courses - they create new online spaces for knowledge sharing. She analyzes data from surveys and learning analytics from two MOOC platforms to study how students interact and form knowledge networks. A case study examines a MOOC on transversal competencies for entrepreneurship with over 260,000 total students and 5,602 students in the course. The document provides background on the theoretical frameworks of networking analysis and connectivism that inform the research.
2018-04-24 Presentation at OE Global 2018 in Delft on "How to make MOOCs better for specific target groups and developing countries?" by Christian M. Stracke, OUNL, Carlos Delgado Kloos (UC3M) et al.
Using telecollaboration to design a start-up to develop civic and entrepreneu...Lourdes Pomposo
Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) to Food and Agricultural Engineering students requires language instructors to design a varied range of activities aimed at helping students familiarise themselves with their subject matter areas in English and develop their professional (Ibrahim, 2010) and critical thinking skills (Šliogerienė, 2005).
This study was carried out in the context of the VELCOME project (Virtual Exchange for Learning and Competence Development in EMI Classroom), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. The main activities of this part of the project were carried out online by our Food and Agricultural Engineering students, who were following a compulsory English for Professional and Academic Communication course. The main goal was to offer the participants opportunities to use their knowledge and expertise to move towards a more sustainable world while fostering their civic and entrepreneurial competences. To do this, they were required to design and develop a fictitious start-up, in English through asynchronous and synchronous telecollaboration (Belz, 2003) to practice these competences. In the asynchronous stage the students designed Padlet posters. After this stage, the participants took part in a synchronous virtual meeting via Zoom, where each group was given the opportunity to present their start-ups to the members of a different team. This study explores students’ preliminary learning results, the development of civic and entrepreneurial competences through virtual exchanges as well as the difficulties and benefits of carrying out an experiment involving participants from different groups with different profiles and interests.
The document summarizes the MyMobile project which aimed to promote mobile learning in adult education across Europe. The project involved 4 partners from the UK, Italy, Belgium and Germany. It included workshops in each country to test mobile learning strategies, an evaluation process, and the development of guidelines for practitioners. The guidelines were published in a handbook that provided a structure for designing mobile learning scenarios. The project sought to transfer knowledge about mobile learning between partners and produce resources to train multipliers to incorporate mobile technologies into adult education.
The ECO project aimed to broaden access to education through open online courses (MOOCs) across multiple European languages and platforms. It involved 22 partners and created 17 pilot MOOCs reaching over 37,000 users. The project developed a connected learning model incorporating connectivism, situated learning and socio-constructivism. It established a single portal providing access to multiple MOOC platforms and languages, and aimed to increase participation, quality and cost-effectiveness of online education across Europe.
The ECO Project for E-teaching: social MOOCs at the crossroads of actors’ CO...Adeline Bossu
The document discusses the ECO project, which aims to broaden access to education through social MOOCs on multiple platforms. It provides an overview of the project details, including its goals, pedagogical approach, and partnerships. The ECO project uses an innovative decentralized model, connecting learners to various MOOC platforms through a single portal. It has created over 30 social MOOCs across 6 languages with nearly 50,000 users. A key aspect of the project is its focus on intercultural collaboration through courses like the "Step By Step" MOOC, which brings together partners from different countries and cultures to foster social learning.
Promotion of social inclusion and intercultural values through ECO decentrali...EADTU
The document discusses a webinar about sustainable business models for MOOCs and the need for cross-institutional cooperation. It focuses on interculturality and social inclusion, which are central to the ECO project. Intercultural intelligence is distributed across countries and cultures. The webinar addresses starting points for reflection on aligning altruistic values with project monetization. It also discusses ensuring accessibility and social inclusion through open and decentralized learning models that break down cultural barriers and follow open web standards.
The document discusses a webinar about sustainable business models for MOOCs and the need for cross-institutional cooperation. It focuses on interculturality and social inclusion, which are central to the ECO project. Interculturality involves collective intelligence distributed across countries and cultures. The webinar addresses starting points for reflection on reconciling altruistic values with project monetization and their impact on sustainable business models. It also discusses MOOCs approached from a corporate social responsibility perspective.
The ECO project aims to demonstrate the potential of open educational resources and MOOCs through a European partnership. The project will create an open learning platform to provide online courses and resources and help teachers create their own materials. It involves 22 partners across 6 countries and seeks to improve access to education through innovative technologies. The project will design pedagogical models, develop technical platforms, run pilot MOOCs and courses, and evaluate results to continuously improve the learning experience for users.
ECO MOOC offering at decentralised MOOC level: services on pedagogical approa...EADTU
Presentation by Divina Frau-Meigs (U Paris 3-Sorbonne) in the context of ECO webinar on Sustainable business models for MOOCs: the need for cross-institutional cooperation, 28 September 2016
The document describes the ECO project, which aims to broaden access to education in Europe through short modular open online courses (sMOOCs). It discusses the project's features and goals. The main points are:
- The ECO project has 22 partners across Europe and a budget of over 4.6 million euros. It aims to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of teaching through sMOOCs.
- As of now, the project has hosted 22 sMOOCs in 6 languages attracting over 37,000 users across its 6 partner platforms.
- The sMOOCs are designed to be accessible on multiple devices and platforms. They follow socio-constructivist and connectivist
This document discusses a workshop on sMOOCs (small MOOCs) held in Barcelona. It includes an agenda for the workshop with time allocated for presentations and discussion. The ECO project is presented, which aims to create open online courses using mobile and ubiquitous technologies to improve access. Key aspects discussed include the pedagogical model, assessment and certification processes in sMOOCs, and strategies for incorporating new participants and ensuring inclusion.
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.
Dezvoltarea Eco-sistemului Educatie Digitala UPTDiana Andone
Dezvoltarea Eco-sistemului Educatie Digitala UPT, experienta UPT in constructia educatiei digitale
prezentata de Diana Andone, UPT
la Workshopul "Experiența privind educația online la nivel universitar în România. Provocări și perspective viitoare: organizata de Asociatai Tine de Noi, 9 iulie 2020, online
Eleonora Pantò - Using Social Media effectively in your MOOCEUmoocs
This presentation discusses using social media effectively in MOOCs. It recommends using social media to increase followers, attract attention to course subjects, and create a community of learners to support informal learning. The document outlines nine steps to design a MOOC and describes various social media tools that can be used, including their pros and cons. It provides examples of social media use from previous MOOCs and discusses how social media can help foster a sense of belonging among students to reduce attrition.
This document discusses Marta Cáceres-Piñuel's PhD research on MOOCs and their role in creating open communities of knowledge. Her hypothesis is that MOOCs enable more than just massive online courses - they create new online spaces for knowledge sharing. She analyzes data from surveys and learning analytics from two MOOC platforms to study how students interact and form knowledge networks. A case study examines a MOOC on transversal competencies for entrepreneurship with over 260,000 total students and 5,602 students in the course. The document provides background on the theoretical frameworks of networking analysis and connectivism that inform the research.
2018-04-24 Presentation at OE Global 2018 in Delft on "How to make MOOCs better for specific target groups and developing countries?" by Christian M. Stracke, OUNL, Carlos Delgado Kloos (UC3M) et al.
Using telecollaboration to design a start-up to develop civic and entrepreneu...Lourdes Pomposo
Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) to Food and Agricultural Engineering students requires language instructors to design a varied range of activities aimed at helping students familiarise themselves with their subject matter areas in English and develop their professional (Ibrahim, 2010) and critical thinking skills (Šliogerienė, 2005).
This study was carried out in the context of the VELCOME project (Virtual Exchange for Learning and Competence Development in EMI Classroom), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. The main activities of this part of the project were carried out online by our Food and Agricultural Engineering students, who were following a compulsory English for Professional and Academic Communication course. The main goal was to offer the participants opportunities to use their knowledge and expertise to move towards a more sustainable world while fostering their civic and entrepreneurial competences. To do this, they were required to design and develop a fictitious start-up, in English through asynchronous and synchronous telecollaboration (Belz, 2003) to practice these competences. In the asynchronous stage the students designed Padlet posters. After this stage, the participants took part in a synchronous virtual meeting via Zoom, where each group was given the opportunity to present their start-ups to the members of a different team. This study explores students’ preliminary learning results, the development of civic and entrepreneurial competences through virtual exchanges as well as the difficulties and benefits of carrying out an experiment involving participants from different groups with different profiles and interests.
The document summarizes the MyMobile project which aimed to promote mobile learning in adult education across Europe. The project involved 4 partners from the UK, Italy, Belgium and Germany. It included workshops in each country to test mobile learning strategies, an evaluation process, and the development of guidelines for practitioners. The guidelines were published in a handbook that provided a structure for designing mobile learning scenarios. The project sought to transfer knowledge about mobile learning between partners and produce resources to train multipliers to incorporate mobile technologies into adult education.
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Car accident rates have increased in recent years, resulting in losses in human lives, properties, and other financial costs. An embedded machine learning-based system is developed to address this critical issue. The system can monitor road conditions, detect driving patterns, and identify aggressive driving behaviors. The system is based on neural networks trained on a comprehensive dataset of driving events, driving styles, and road conditions. The system effectively detects potential risks and helps mitigate the frequency and impact of accidents. The primary goal is to ensure the safety of drivers and vehicles. Collecting data involved gathering information on three key road events: normal street and normal drive, speed bumps, circular yellow speed bumps, and three aggressive driving actions: sudden start, sudden stop, and sudden entry. The gathered data is processed and analyzed using a machine learning system designed for limited power and memory devices. The developed system resulted in 91.9% accuracy, 93.6% precision, and 92% recall. The achieved inference time on an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense with a 32-bit CPU running at 64 MHz is 34 ms and requires 2.6 kB peak RAM and 139.9 kB program flash memory, making it suitable for resource-constrained embedded systems.
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Electric vehicle and photovoltaic advanced roles in enhancing the financial p...IJECEIAES
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Towards e-presence at distance as a way to reach and share e-quality: the case of the ECO sMOOCs eMOOCs2017
1. Towards e-presence at distance as a way to
reach and share e-quality: the case of the
ECO sMOOCs
Divina Frau-Meigs, Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW
Adeline Bossu, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, MICA
Keywords: sMOOC · Quality · E-presence · Cognitive presence · Social presence · Designed
presence · Model · distance · ECO project · sustainability · E-quality · Participants
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Original approach to e-presence in social participatory MOOCs (or sMOOCs),
taking the case of EU-funded ECO project on sMOOCs.
Model for e-presence based on the different layers proposed by Garrison and
Anderson (2003):
- “cognitive presence” (emphasis on the reflexive)
- “social presence” (emphasis on the collaborative) to which
- “designed presence” is added (emphasis on the platform constraints and
opportunities) (Frau-Meigs 2013).
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European project funded by European Commission
in Competitiveness and innovation framework programme
Theme 2: “digital satisfied, open dated and creativity”.
22 PARTNERS
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The ECO project purports to design MOOCs that respond to the acquisition of
digital competences for inclusion (www.ecolearning.eu).
Main phases:
• The pedagogical model sMOOC
• 17 pilot sMOOCs with ECO diversified teams;
• Learners become e-teachers themselves, on the basis of their participation in
the pilot MOOCs, especially the sMOOC to learn how to make sMOOCs, the
“Step by Step”.
• E-teachers sMOOCs
5. Towards e-presence at distance as a way to reach and share e-quality: the case of the ECO sMOOCs
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Pedagogical Design sMOOC
Recombines social-constructive approaches and connectivist approaches, with a
strong reliance on tutors and mediators emanating from a strong community of inquiry
(Siemens 2008; McAdam and McCreedy 2000).
cMOOC ‘Focus on community and connections’
Social ‘learning experience marked by social interactions and participation’
Pedagogical approach: connectivism, situated learning, socio-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
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Producing the
17 sMOOC PILOTS + 9 additional ECO sMOOC
Ensuring the deployment and validation of the
sMOOC PILOT Year 1, 2 and 3
Planning – Implementation – Support
9 HUBS – 5 platforms – 6 languages
8 weeks duration
3 editions or more
Analysing and Improving of each pilot intermediate
results
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External Partners sMOOC
Ensuring the deployment and validation of the
NEW sMOOC
e-teacher sMOOC
Pedagogical assistance
Technical assistance
Management assistance
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One portal - 5 platforms - 6 languages
81 sMOOC
135 Iterations
56 500 participants
All contents available
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IN ECO, THE LEVELS OF EMBEDDEDNESS OF THE THREE LAYERS OF E-
PRESENCE ARE ALL FULLY VISIBLE.
Model for e-presence based on the different layers proposed by Garrison and
Anderson (2003):
- “cognitive presence” (emphasis on the reflexive)
- “social presence” (emphasis on the collaborative) to which
- “designed presence” is added (emphasis on the platform
constraints and opportunities) (Frau-Meigs 2013).
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In ECO, Cognitive presence is facilitated in the different postures the learner can opt
for. The sMOOC “DIY Media Information Literacy” proposes several pathways:
“explorer”, “analyst” and “creator”, buttressed on a roadmap and a cognitive
scaffolding
The sMOOC DIY MIL critical pathways
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In ECO, social presence
• the extensive use of videos in sMOOCs and the links that point to other
participants as a kind of social network of affinities that also present the benefit
of fostering intercultural dialogue as visible in the sMOOC “Step by Step”.
• The “groups” functionality also allows to work and solve cases by getting
people to collaborate on projects
• Live events help sustain a shared social presence as well as the possibility for
the participants to “follow” each other and to geolocalize if they wish to meet
face to face as seen with the “PhDOOC”.
The group wall functionality with microblogging tool from the Step
by Step sMOOC
A live-webconference from the sMOOC PhDOOC
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In ECO, social presence
Besides, the internal social networks and the external commercial
networks allowed participants to express several levels of emotions
according to their felt level of privacy and public openness.
Social network graph indicating connection between learners
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In ECO designed presence:
• the sMOOC Learning Lab,
• the sMOOC Step by Step.
They help the e-teachers and participants to mobilize their own cognitive scripts
and their reflexivity of their needs and functionalities available
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This process of reflexivity on e-presence was first implemented and tested by
the creators of the platform and its content according to the participatory
sMOOC model.
When applied to e-teachers, the early teams endeavored to provide a similar
experience, all the more so as the e-teachers were participants and had an
early experience of learning via sMOOCs scheme.
E-teachers as well as their trainers were exposed to similar questions and
processes, the only difference being the scale and the level of reflexivity
(Hodgson and Reynolds, 2005; Wright, 2005). The same person then gets to
change status according to the phases of ECO in which she/he evolves.
This increases reflexivity, proximity, awareness of representations of
authority and knowledge, attention to others’ diversity.
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To ensure e-quality, ECO partners:
Ensuring sustainability via shareable and transferable
templates
Evaluating intermediate and final assessment of the results
Ensuring scalability via learning spaces and dedicated
application
The contribution of e-presence to e-quality
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CHECKLIST
Peer to Peer
assessment
Self-
assessment
Supervisor
assessment
3 levels
Ensuring e-quality
with other partners
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To describe a
representative
sMOOC with the
pedagogical and
technical sMOOC
ECO features
sMOOC ECO GUIDE
Ensuring sustainability via shareable
and transferable templates
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The sMOOC
Learning Lab
To train e-teachers and create
community
Tutorials Collaborative
Spaces
Ensuring scalability via learning
spaces and dedicated application
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The transversal sMOOC
Step by Step (6 languages)
To train e-teachers and
create communities
Ensuring scalability via learning
spaces and dedicated application
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THE ECO BACKOFFICE APPLICATION
Ensuring scalability via learning
spaces and dedicated application
For participants and future e-teachers
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THE ECO BACKOFFICE APPLICATION
Ensuring scalability via learning
spaces and dedicated application
For HUBs and WP3
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LEARNING ANALYTICS TOOLS
Evaluating intermediate and final
assessment of the results
LEARNING ANALYTICS GUIDE AND
MODEL
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SATISFACTION QUESTIONNAIRE
OVERALL EXPERIENCE
FURTHER MOOCS IN THE FUTURE?
LEARNING EXPERIENCE
All sMOOC Iterations
Analysis
Evaluating intermediate and final
assessment of the results
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Rmk: Social presence is less emphasized in these tools because other
functionalities already existed a part and parcel of the platform used (chats, forums,
….) and social networks used in parallel for communication.
e-presence / Tools & spaces
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All these tools help the e-teachers in the creation of their own e-presence.
This process in turn benefits the other participants, which will be able to create
sMOOCs and establish their e-presence as well.
This snowball strategy produces a multiplier effect that can use the benefits
of heavy prototype investment at the beginning by ensuring some sustainability
over time.
Such a process is part of the ECO model whose reflexivity contributes to the
specificity and originality of European MOOCs in the global MOOCosphere.
Conclusion 1 : ECO model & multiplier effect
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After all these levels of presence, reflexivity and transferability,
participatory pedagogy in sMOOCs helps presence at a distance, and
makes it part of e-quality.
As a result, e-quality is being redesigned by MOOCs. There is a qualitative
shift: e-quality itself changes when the three types of presence (cognitive, social
and designed) are brought together to ensure purpose, reflexivity and
sustainability. This points to how the ECO model expands the institutional value
of e-presence.
Conclusion 2 : e-quality optimized and redisigned
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e-presence needs to be related to e-quality as a multifaceted “process of co-
production between the learner and the learning-environment” (Ehlers 2004: 2).
e-presence needs to be taken more into account in the design of MOOCS and
also in their quality assurance as it is an empowering process that enables the
learner.
e-presence needs to be ensured all through the learning service, to ascertain
that quality is not just an outcome of the e-learning platform.
e-presence should be used to diminish distance and to bring awareness to
pedagogical and technical design and functionalities.
Conclusion