«edx MOOC organization about open education and OERs repositories»

Manuel Castro, PhD ([email protected])UNED – Spanish University for Distance Education Full professor.IEEE Fellow member

edX MOOC organization about Open Education and OERs repositories

EDUCATION SOCIETYhttp://ieee-edusociety.org/

Open education and open educational resources are deeply influencing and transforming the educational environment

This course offers a practitioner’s view of open education, open educational resources, repositories and applications for educators and professionals

Introduction


https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:IEEEx+FOE01.x+3T2017/course/

First edition (Sep-Aug/2017) / Second edition (Nov-Dec/2017) https://www.edx.org/course/open-education-oers-repositories-ieeex-foe01-x-0

IEEEx MOOC Free On-Line Courses from IEEEFirst MOOC of the IEEE Education Society




This 4-week course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which open education and open educational resources are changing the rules of education

The purpose of the course is to help faculty and professionals dedicated to education to understand the advantages of open education and how they can apply it to their everyday teaching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDmTVsfeOk Promotional Video

Introduction

• Foundations of open education and open educational resources (OERs)

• Open licences that apply to OERs;• How to search, create, use, remix

and share OERs;• OERs repositories;• OERs Applications to Academia &

Industry

• Coordinator: Manuel Castro, (IEEE Fellow, Past President Senior EdSoc, BoG IEEE EdSoc Spanish Chapter, Spain Section)

• On-going proposal: Edmundo Tovar (IEEE Senior Member, VP Educational Activities EdSoc, BoG IEEE EdSoc Spanish Chapter), Sergio Martin (IEEE Senior Member, BoG IEEE EdSoc Spanish Chapter), Rebecca Strachan (IEEE Member, IEEE EdSoc BoG member at large) and Oscar Martinez-Bonastre (IEEE Senior Member, BoG IEEE EdSoc Spanish Chapter, Spain Section)

• Local Advisory Committee: Oscar Martinez-Bonastre, Edmundo Tovar, Martin Llamas, Manuel Caeiro, Javier Garcia-Zubia, Manuel Gericota, Gabriel Diaz, Francisco Arcega, Sergio Martin

• IEEE Education Society BoG involvement: Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany Ciampi, Jim Sluss, Russ Meier, Lance Perez, Tony Maciejewski and Rebecca Strachan

• IEEE Educational Activities involvement: Jill Bagley, Marguerite Corazza, Jonathan Dahl, James Moesch and S. K. Ramesh

Teachers and Staff organization

Course Introduction Unit 1 – Introduction to Open

Education & OERs – UNED (Spain)

Unit 2 – Repositories – UPM & Miguel Hernandez University (Spain)

Unit 3 – Applications to Academia & Industry – Northumbria University (UK)

Unit 4 – Applications for OERs – Vigo University (Spain)

Conclusions – IEEE & IEEE Education Society

Course contents overview

Enrollment analytics(first edition Aug/Sep-2017)


• There were 1.173 students enrolled in the course (and 1.274 today)

• Most of them were enrolled from July 25, 2017

Enrollment


• Regarding the Median Learner Age, the midpoint of the learner ages is 37. The percentage of learners aged 25 years or younger is 17,3%

• The percentage of learners aged from 26 to 40 is 41,8%. The learners with 41 and Over are the 40,8%

Age demographics

• The 29,5% of the participants had a University degree and 55,1% Master or PhD

Studies demographics


• Regarding genre, 57,3% of the participants were male and 41,6% female

Genre demographics


• There are students from 117 countries. The country with more students is USA with 17,4% of the total, followed by Spain (6,9%) and India (6,8%)

Geographic distribution


Edmundo Tovar, PhD ([email protected])UPM – Technical University of MadridAssociate ProfessorIEEE Senior member

Big ideas to develop


Purpose

The purpose of the course is to help faculty and professionals dedicated to education to understand the advantages of open education and how they can apply it to their everyday teaching

Key topics

1. What is OPEN?2. Communities around open repositories3. Industry and Academy4. Utilities to Applications

Key topics

What is Open

Communities around Open Repositories

CC BY Wenger E. (1998). Communities of Practice, Learning, Meaning, and Identity, Cambridge University Press, NewYork.

Anthony F. Camilleri Ulf Daniel Ehlers Jan Pawlowski


Communities around Open Repositories

• MERLOT: to improve the effectiveness of learning by increasing the quantity and quality of materials– 62.500 materials– 140.000 members– A set of faculty development

support services:– Almost 25 editorial boards

ContactCS: Henry Chan:

[email protected]

IT/IS: Edmundo Tovar: [email protected]

Join MERLOT

Utilities to implementHow to license

– Coosing– Checking– Assigning

– Adapting

– Combining

CC “License Your Work” tool– https://creative commons.org/choose

Ordering of CC Licences from most to least open by Creative Commons BY-SA, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/


Industry and Academy• Case Studies in

Academia– Flipped classroom and

Khan Academy– For International

students– Social exclusion

– …

• Cases Study in Industry– Ericsson and the

updating of techical skills

– For health professionals

– For teachers in Africa

– …


• Tools for OERs as presentations, documents and videos

• How to use video as a teacher: tools and apps

Utilities to implement


Utilities to implement• There are many other types of resources

that can be provided as OERs:– Lesson plans– Rubrics– Assessments– Tests– Mind and conceptual maps– etc.


Sergio Martin, PhD ([email protected])UNED – Spanish University for Distance Education Associate Professor.IEEE Senior member

MOOC organization and learner performance


1. Define the syllabus in a Word document1. Usually 1 module per week (4 – 6 weeks)2. Usual student effort: 25h of student work3. Define subunits

Steps

Unit 1: Introduction to Open Education & OERs Open source wayOpen educationOpen educational resourcesOpen courses: from OCW to MOOCs

Course outline


Unit 2: RepositoriesCommunities based on OER Repositories. Repositories of general purposeOpen practices based on repositoriesChallenges to use OER from repositoriesOpen engineering communities. The case of IT and CS communities in Merlot repository

Course outline


Unit 3: Applications to Academic and IndustryTeaching through Open EducationResearch and Open Access Industry and Open Education The Future

Course outline


Unit 4: Applications for OERsOERs: properties, formats and tools Creative Commons Licenses and their use OERs and media: presentations and documents / video (creation and modification)Other OERs (Lesson Plans, Rubrics, Assessments, etc.)

Course outline


2. Distribute the modules among participantes

3. Define calendar

Steps

Unit 1. – Introduction to Open Education & OERs – UNED (Spain)Unit 2. – Repositories – UPM & Miguel Hernandez University (Spain)Unit 3. – Applications to Academia & Industry – Northumbria University (UK)Unit 4. – Applications for OERs – Vigo University (Spain)

4. Define module structure

Steps

Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs) Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs

MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories

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Pre module assessment (5 test questions) 1.1. Introduction video - 3 min [record Beatriz]1.2. Subunit 1. One or two videos (3-5 min) + ppt/PDF + Research exercise [record Gabi]1.3. Subunit 2. One or two videos (3-5 min) + ppt/PDF + Research exercise [record Beatriz]1.4. Subunit 3. One or two videos (3-5 min) + ppt/PDF + Research exercise [record Manuel]1.5. Subunit 4. One or two videos (3-5 min) + ppt/PDF + Research exercise [record Sergio]1.6. Conclusions video - 4 min [record Beatriz] Final module assessment (10 test questions)


5. Prepare subunits powerpoint (3-5 minutes)

6. Video recording1. Autonomous recording with Camtasia

2. Polimedia o TV set

5. Mandatory reading preparation (PDF or web)

Steps


8. Subunit example:

Steps

PPT:

Video:

Research exercise:Research on the Internet about real examples of the open source movement applied to environments different than software. We encourage you to publish your conclusions in the forum and provide opinion about other students' conclusions.

Mandatory reading (PDF, PPT or Web)Free culture movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_culture_movement

Additional resourcesThe open source movement: https://www.noupe.com/design/the-open-source-movement.html

9. Preassessment(5 questions)

Steps1. Are Open Educational Resources part of the open source movement?( ) No, the open source movement is not for teaching or learning( ) No, the open source movement is only for software(x) Yes, the foundations are the same( ) Yes, but only when the Open Educational Resource is a software 2. Is open education the same than e-learning?( ) Yes, basically they are synonyms( ) Answer 3 ( ) Answer 4(x) No, e-learning may not be open 3. Are Creative Commons licences only valid for digital art works?( ) Yes(x) No, they are intended to any digital resource( ) No, they are valid for both digital and physical art works 4. Can a MOOC be considered as an OER?( ) Yes, MOOCs are open educational resource by definition( ) No(x) Depending on its associated licence 5. Can a video found on YouTube be used as an OER?( ) Yes, they are there for free( ) No, YouTube is a commercial tool(x) Depending on the licence associated ( ) Only if no one knows it


10. Post-assessment

(10 questions)

Steps

1. Is OER the same than e-learning? ( ) Yes, OERs are the foundations of current e-learning(x) No, OER is not synonymous with online learning or e-learning, although many people make the mistake of using the terms interchangeably( ) Yes, OERs' only environment is e-learning 2. Am I giving away all my intellectual property if I assign a CC licence to one of my teaching resources? ( ) Yes, you lose all rights(x) No, you only lose the rights that you decide to give( ) Depending on how many years have passed since I obtained the rights from these resources. 3. Is the following attribution correct? "Digital Electronics" by Sergio is licensed under CC BY 2.0 ( ) No, there is no need to indicate the creator name (x) No, the URL to the source is missing( ) No, the title format is invalid( ) Yes, it is correct


11. Mounting the contents in edX Studio (admin plataform)

Steps


12. Add module 0 with objetives, syllabus, platform demo plataforma and forum use guidelines

Steps

13. Mount each module with pre and post evaluation

Steps

14. Create the same structure in each subunit

Steps


15. Upload videos to YouTube and link them in the platform with their transcriptions

Steps

16. Add mandatory and additional reading, and research task

Steps


17. Example of student view of a subunit

Steps

Video Mandatory Reading

Additional Reading

Research task

18. Create home page, forums, dates and course guide

Steps


Subunit – 1.4 Open courses (from OCW to MOOCs) Unit 1 – Open Introduction to Open Education & OERs

MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories

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Home page

Course guide

Forum Info about IEEE

Important dates

Learner performance analytics


• High performance first days

• Decreased following days/weeks

Weekly performance

• Activity in video-leactures decreased from module to module

Learner activity in video-lectures


• There were a total of 37 discussion threads.

• The most active forum discussions were the ones associated to the research exercise of the modules.

• The activity decreases in the forums decreases according to the activity in the different units. – unit 1.2 had 80 messages – unit 1.3 had 49– unit 1.4 had 25 – unit 1.5 had 24

Learner activity in forums

• Most students (93%) did not attempt any module assignment– They just watched some videos

• Only 7% (82) of the students attempted any test– From these students 56,1% (46) passed the course

• From those, only 16 requested a verified certificate from edX– 34,7% of the students that passed the course requested a paid certificate

• In the global of the 1.155 students enrolled in the course:– Only 4% of students passed the course– only 1,4% of students passed and requested a paid certificate

Grading


• November – December 2017

Next steps… 2nd edition


Manuel Castro, PhD ([email protected])Sergio Martin, PhD ([email protected])UNED – Spanish University for Distance Education Edmundo Tovar, PhD ([email protected])UPM – Technical University of Madrid

EdX MOOC organization about Open Education and OERs repositories
