MOOCS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING:
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The document discusses the rise of MOOCs and their potential in language education, highlighting the need for efficiently designed learning environments. It evaluates various MOOLCs (massive open online language courses) based on specific criteria related to educational resources, pedagogy, assessment, community building, and technical infrastructure. Key findings indicate a lack of highly interactive features and significant dropout rates, recommending the creation of more engaging and connectivist MOOLCs.
MOOCS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING:
- 1. ANASTASIOS A. ECONOMIDES Interdepartmental Progr. of Postgraduate Studies in Information Systems,University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, GREECE MARIA A. PERIFANOU Department of Italian Studies, National & Kapodistrian UniversIty of Athens, GREECE
- 8. Language competencies & intercultural skills : key qualifications for living and working in 21st century Need for MOOCs related to language education Web 2.0 participatory, immediate, authentic, engages community a promising language learning environment
- 9. How to design an efficient Language Learning Environment for MOOLCs? Are there many MOOLC initiatives that could provide a promising Massive Open Interactive Language Learning Environment (MOILLE)?
- 10. a) Exploration of current MOOLC initiatives b) Classification of the MOOLC initiatives according to concrete criteria c) Evaluation of most representative MOOLC initiatives using the MOILLE framework d) Analysis of the results & conclusions
- 11. 1st Stage
- 15. 2nd Stage University/Entity Number of Free / Paid language Courses Language Certification/ Badges/Official credits Fixed time session cMOOC / xMOOC
- 19. CONTENT: Authentic educational resources; Use of multimedia/tech; Variety of activities that promote all basic language skills & support cultural awareness. PEDAGOGY: Communication (peer-peer, student-teacher, open class community); Collaboration (CL) (group projects, forums etc.); Collective intelligence; Autonomy (Autonomous/Self-paced/SL Learning/Reflection); Engagement-Motivation; Playful/Game based learning; Number of instructors. ASSESSMENT: On going Assessment/ Scaffolding (peer-peer, student- teacher, open, automated) Final Assessment; Evidence-Based improvement (data mining, Analytics); Feedback (comments, reviews). COMMUNITY: Social Community building as Massive & Open (Social Media – third part tools integration & other tech tools). TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Max number of participants, Platform’s performance, Security, Usability). FINANCIAL ISSUES: Profit. Charges for Course or Certification/ Accreditation.
- 20. 3nd Stage
- 24. 4th Stage
- 25. 6 MOOLC initiatives offer authentic educational resources in a high level 11 use multimedia tools 3 offer a variety of activities that promote the basic language skills & support cultural awareness
- 26. 5 MOOLC initiatives support the various types of communication (peer-peer, student- teacher, open class community) in a high level 1 promote collaboration, (group projects, forums etc.) or collective intelligence in a high degree 15 support very much the autonomous, self- paced & self-regulated learning, learner’s reflection 6 support learners’ engagement and motivation None of them offers game based activities of high degree 2 provide many instructors for a course
- 27. 5 MOOLC initiatives provide various types of assessment (peer-peer, student- teacher, open, automated) 7 provide an official final assessment, 4 show learners’ performance evolution (data mining, analytics) 6 give the possibility to participants to provide feedback of various types (comments, reviews)
- 28. 5 MOOLC initiatives offer a big variety of social media tools or other technologies in order to build a Social Language Learning Community
- 29. 12 MOOLC initiatives can accept a massive number of participants offer usability have good technical performance provide high security
- 30. none of the explored MOOLC initiatives require any high charges except for: certification or accreditation
- 31. “Are there many MOOLC initiatives that could provide a promising Massive Open Interactive Language Learning Environment (MOILLE)”? NO Good examples: SpanishMOOC http://spanishmooc.com Mixxer MOOC http://www.languageexchanges.org/node/106803
- 32. Many MOOLCs are still free have generally good infrastructure offer certification
- 33. Pedagogical aspect of MOOLCs (no highly interactive, no FL community, no building language skills collectively) Time cost for educators Big dropout rate
- 34. Create more connectivist MOOLCs Create highly interactive Language Learning Environments Keep high students’ degree of motivation & self-direction
- 36. o http://elearninginfographics.com/european-moocs- infographic/#sthash.wCL5G0XD.qjtu o http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/ambitp/2013/05/22/moocs- state-of-the-art o http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/ o http://www.edutopia.org o http://open-it-lab.com/open-content/ o http://edutechdebate.org/oer-and-digital-divide/do- open-educational-resources-actually-increase-the- digital-divide/
Editor's Notes
- #3: Access to open education, open content and open educational resources (OER) is gaining more andmore attention worldwide.
- #5: OPEN : technologies and platforms that are already available on the internet i.e SNS and freely accessible to allMASSIVE: unlimited number of students can enroll in the course ONLINE: courses conducted mainly on the internetCOURSES: course with predefined learning goals and learning paths Even though they may vary through the coursesCONNECTIVIST MOOCs: emphasise the OPEN aspect and the concept of constructing content in a networkXMOOCs: emphasise CONTENT and the ONLINE aspects of the conceptConnectivist / xmoocs
- #6: UDEMY : founded in 2010 - a learning site that aims to democratize online education by enabling anyone to teach and learn online.2011 Stanford launches Artificial Intelligence course with 160.000 students, Udacity was founded in 2011 but both first course started on 20 February 2012, entitled "CS 101: Building a Search Engine", taught by David Evans from the University of Virginia, and "CS 373: Programming a Robotic Car”COURSERA: April 2012 Pan european initiative:OpenupEd- The initiative is led by the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU)Google and edX are teaming up for an open-source massive open online course site, MOOC.org : Allow anyone to create and post courses
- #8: Moocs ineurope
- #9: Languages and moocs why is this a big challenge for language learning The arrival of MOOCs has already changed dramatically the idea of education and has oriented The design and implementation of MOOCs with focus on language learning has not beenexplored yet and this paper aims to fill this research gaplearners to educational courses that are open, participatory, distributed and at the same time supportthe idea of lifelong networked learning.Language competencies and intercultural skills will more than ever be a part of the key qualificationsneeded to successfully work and live in this new reality. The need for MOOCs related to languageeducation has already paved the way for the creation of the first “open and massive” foreign languagecourses.Many researches have already shown that the web is a rich field in putting real communication topractice, and explore new forms to exercise one’s language comprehension and fluency. Specifically,web 2.0 is participatory, immediate, authentic and it engages the community. All these are keyfeatures in language learning process and make Web 2.0 a promising language learning environment. The arrival of MOOCs has already changed dramatically the idea of education and has orientedlearners to educational courses that are open, participatory, distributed and at the same time supportthe idea of lifelong networked learning.Language competencies and intercultural skills will more than ever be a part of the key qualificationsneeded to successfully work and live in this new reality. The need for MOOCs related to languageeducation has already paved the way for the creation of the first “open and massive” foreign languagecourses.Many researches have already shown that the web is a rich field in putting real communication topractice, and explore new forms to exercise one’s language comprehension and fluency. Specifically,web 2.0 is participatory, immediate, authentic and it engages the community. All these are keyfeatures in language learning process and make Web 2.0 a promising language learning environment.
- #10: The design and implementation of MOOCs with focus on language learning has not beenexplored yet and this paper aims to fill this research gapThe case: Research questions: / The research methodology that has been adopted by the researchers followed the following stages:a) Exploration of current MOOLCs initiativesb) Classification of the MOOLCs initiatives according to concrete criteriac) Evaluation of most representative MOOLCs initiatives using the MOOILLE frameworkd) Analysis of the results and conclusions
- #12: a) Exploration of current MOOLCs initiatives
- #16: Univerity/Entity
- #26: Evaluation of most representative MOOLCs initiatives using the MOOILLE framework/ 16 platforms RESULTS 1
- #27: Results 2- PEDAGOGY
- #28: Results 3- ASSESSMENT
- #29: Results4-COMMUNITY BUILDING
- #30: Results 5- TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
- #31: Results 6-FINANCIAL ISSUES
- #32: Conclusions 1“Are there many MOOLC initiatives that could provide a promising Massive Open Interactive LanguageLearning Environment (MOILLE)”? NO SpanishMOOC(http://spanishmooc.com/) and Mixxer MOOC (http://www.languageexchanges.org/node/106803) but generally most of the MOOLCs initiatives don't offer a highly interactiveenvironment where the learners are interconnected to a language learning community and buildcollectively their language skills. Even if we still discuss about “massive” courses learners are stillstudying a language in a traditional way following courses that are based on a cognitive behavioralpedagogical model and this research finding confirms a previous theoretical resource discussedearlier [12]. The positive aspect is that many courses are still free, have generally good infrastructureand many offer certification. One of the issues that still remain open for discussion and improvement isthe pedagogical aspect of MOOLCs. Designers and educators should focus on the creation of moreinteractive and more connectivist MOOLCs. Time cost for educators is also an important issue thatneeds to be resolved in future.
- #33: Conclusions 2The positive aspect is that many courses are still free, have generally good infrastructureand many offer certification
- #34: ISSUES generally most of the MOOLCs initiatives don't offer a highly interactiveenvironment where the learners are interconnected to a language learning community and buildcollectively their language skills. Even if we still discuss about “massive” courses learners are stillstudying a language in a traditional way following courses that are based on a cognitive behavioralpedagogical model and this research finding confirms a previous theoretical resource discussedearlier [12]. The positive aspect is that many courses are still free, have generally good infrastructureand many offer certification. One of the issues that still remain open for discussion and improvement isthe pedagogical aspect of MOOLCs. Designers and educators should focus on the creation of moreinteractive and more connectivist MOOLCs. Time cost for educators is also an important issue thatneeds to be resolved in future.
- #35: Thank you
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