moocs and learning analytics

Technology Enhanced Learning

Monday - 09.05.2016Mohammad Khalil & Martin Ebner

Educational Technology

Hello! Who am I?Mohammad Khalil

Ph.D. Researcher

My Research

MOOCs&

Learning Analytics

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Open Educational Resources (OER)

OK! That’s great, now what?

MOOCs

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What are MOOCs?

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Massive?

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Open?

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Online?

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Courses?

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What are MOOCs?

You can attend courses

Completely FREE from

Prestigious Universities

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OK! Can you shoot us examples?

Popular MOOC Providers

edX

European MOOCs

iMooX

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What about studying, asking, discussing, quizzes, degrees…?

Lecturing

Discussion Forums

BlogsFacebook/Twitter

Video LecturesDocumentsDownloads

Articles

Multiple Choice QuizOpen EndedAssignments

projects

DiscussionAssessmen

t

MOOCs Learning Objects

I finished the MOOC, What i get?

Badges, Certificates, Experience and don’t forget….Knowledge!

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Workshop 1

Let’s Design a MOOC

M C

Fashion MOOC

M O O C

Waste Recycling

M O O Nutrition MOOC

M O O C

German Language for Starters

A)

B)

C)

D)

Requirements

★ 1. What is your MOOC objectives?

★ 2. What is your lecturing materials?

★ 3. Workload..How many weeks, how many hours to study / Week?

★ 4. Who are your target group? Gender, Age, Language?

★ 5. How will you assess your students? Quizzes, Project…?

★ 6. What is the passing grade?

Workshop 2

Issues of MOOCs?

Each Group Think of 3 problems of Massive Open Online Courses

Learning Analytics

It is data analytics..but in educational systems to improve online learning

environmentsHuh

!But,

Wha

t on

earth

is Data

Analyt

ics?

Google Analytics

Nike Tracking

Google Fit

Youtube Analytics

Now, What is Data Analytics in Education?

iMooX Learning Analytics

Khalil, M. & Ebner, M. (2016). What Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Stakeholder Can Learn from Learning Analytics?. In Learning, Design & Technology. Springer.

Course Signal

Arnold, K. E., & Pistilli, M. D. (2012). Course signals at Purdue: using learning analytics to increase student success. In Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on learning analytics and knowledge (pp. 267-270). ACM.

Learning Analytics fix issues of MOOCs

Khalil, M. & Ebner, M. (2016). When Learning Analytics meets MOOCs: iMooX case Studies. I4cs conference. Vienna, Austria.

Workshop 3

Learning Analytics in MOOCs

★ Design a simple dashboard to track your students

★ How will you react after seeing the results?★ Do you think there are problems of Learning

Analytics applications?

Thanks!Any questions?

Educational Technology