Moocs: new research questions and method?

Presented for the first time at

the First e-Workshop on the Computational and Educational Ecosystems of the CS-DC UNESCO UniTwin

Outlines

https://www.coursera.org/

What is a MOOC?

xMooc (rather top down)

Massively Open Online Courses

What is a MOOC?

The web context

Challenges for TEL Research

The CNRS "COAT" Pilot in Lyon

cMooc (rather bottom up)

Mcauley, A.A. et al., 2010. THE MOOC MODEL FOR DIGITAL PRACTICE. http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/MOOC_Final.pdf.

The MOOC GUIDE: https://sites.google.com/site/themoocguide/14-change11---defining-the-field

https://www.edx.org/course-list/allschools/allsubjects/allcourses

iMooc? Inquiry

Jean-Marie Gilliot http://tipes.wordpress.com/

Gilliot, J.-M. et al., 2013. Le concept de iMOOC pour une ouverture maitrisée. In EIAH 2013 Workshop. pp. 27–36.

The Web context

A MAN-MACHINE COMPLEX ENVIRONMENT -> http://webscience.org/

Some Challenges (my choice)

An amazing number of E-learning Conferences !

And a big number of journals on the subject

http://elearningtech.blogspot.fr/2012/11/elearning-conferences-2013.html

1st Challenge

Integrating existing research for designing Moocs !

GAMING

Palazzi, C.E., Roccetti, M. & Marfia, G., 2010. Realizing the unexploited potential of games on serious challenges. Computers in Entertainment, 8(4), pp.1–4. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1921141.1921143

Personnalizing

Adapting the learning process

Cemal Nat, Muesser, Dastbaz, Mohammad and Bacon, Liz (2008) Research and design challenges for developing personalised eLearning systems. In: E-Learn 2008 Proceedings: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008. Ed/ITLib Digital Library, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Chesapeake, VA, USA , pp. 2536-2542.

Challenges

• Gathering contributions of thousands of learners
• Integrating smartphones possibilities (accelerometer, camera, microphone, GPS, ...)
• Designing pervasive games -> Web 2.0 + web of objects

Challenges

• Web Integration
• From Content Oriented to Student Oriented (information vs process)
• Joining technical and pedagogical support
• Learning preferences / Learner Experience

ASSESSMENT

ENGAGEMENT

Sandeen, C., 2013. Assessment’s Place in the New MOOC World. Research and Practice in Assessment, 8(Summer), pp.5–12.

Mooc Completion Rates: the data

http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html

Challenges

• Semantics of Digital Badges
• Automated Grading
• Calibrated Peer Review
• (Learning Analytics for Assessment & Adaptive learning)
• Distance Proctoring
• Engagement diagnosis & remediation

Learning Activities

Kop, R., 2011. The challenges to connectivist learning on open online networks: Learning experiences during a massive open online course. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 12(3). Available at: http://nparc.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/npsi/ctrl?action=rtdoc&an=18150443

A list of 2000 tools: http://c4lpt.co.uk/directory-of-learning-performance-tools/

A very useful french web site: Thot http://cursus.edu/

http://fr.slideshare.net/sheilamac/lasiuk-learningscenarios-smn

Learning Analytics

Challenges

• Self directed activities
• Presence: cognitive, social, teacher presences
• The learner as a co-designer
• Deeper learning approach
• "Open" APIs to mash up activities
• Interactive, web oriented activities

learning

Research questions and methods

on the MOOCs

What's new?

Challenges

• Beyond the logs!
• Observing and making sense of interactions
• Annotations
• For assessment, dynamic adaptation of learning processes
• Providing keys for a deeper learning behaviour
• Managing Learner's ID / privacy
• Integrating "mash up" web activities
• Giving the learner the ability to add semantics to the data -> using semantics / learning analytics

Towards

"Interactive" Learning Analytics

http://prezi.com/dn3fgdcdcvfv/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

The "COAT" project

Connaissances Ouvertes À Tous

(Open Knowlege For All)

• CNRS action
• April 2013 to December 2014
• Alain Mille: national coordination
• Part 1: animating the french research network (Vanda Luengo)
• Part 2: a Mooc Pilot Operation in Lyon (Alain Mille, Nathalie Guin)

Teachers

Designers

Developers

Researchers

Learners

DESIGN ORIENTED RESEARCH

Research shelves

Debriefing

Producing Knowledge

The Mooc Pilot Operation in Lyon

+ Learners

Teachers

Designers

Developers

Researchers

Running the Mooc

Observing, understanding

acting, adapting, ...

Practices, Resources

Designing a Mooc

with some research

question

• Design Oriented Research

Fallman, D., 2009. Why Research-oriented Design Isn ’ t Design-oriented Research. In Nordic Design Research. Available at: http://www.nordes.org/opj/index.php/n13/article/view/222

https://graasp.epfl.ch/#item=user_1412

http://www.zotero.org/groups/coat_cnrs

• Integration in a MOOC's team
• Designing the observation framework
• Collecting modeled observed elements
• Providing analysis tools
• Developing generic "sensors" and "analyzers"
• Focusing on one precise research question
• Sharing with the community

Alain Mille

Thank you for your attention

LIRIS UMR CNRS 5205, SILEX Team

http://liris.cnrs.fr/equipes?id=44