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+MOOCKnowledge: Establishing a large-

scale data collection about participants of European Open Online Courses

Marco Kalz, Jaap Walhout, Karel Kreijns, Ge Niellissen, Jonatan Castaño-Muñoz, Edmundo Tovar, Anna Espasa,

Teresa Guasch, Rosa Cabedo, Nikolaos Floratos

+Motivation

n  Existing data sets: n  Most US centric n  Not cross-provider

n  European approach to OOE: n  Diversity (Culture and language) n  Rich educational approaches n  Policy building based on evidence

+Motivation

n  Liyanagunawardena, Adams, & Williams (2013) The learner perspective of MOOCs is underrepresented

n  Fischer (2014) “both the hype and the underestimation [of MOOCs] are more based on assumption and beliefs than theoretical groundings and qualitative and quantitative data”

+Research Focus

n  Population details n  Socio-economic details n  Lifelong learning profile n  ICT skills

n  Motivation

n  Intention – Behaviour Gap

n  Impact on study success/job success

+Theoretical background

n  Theory of Reasoned Action (Fishbein and Ajzen, 2010)

n  Self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000)

n  Implementation intentions (Gollwitzer & Oettingen, 2013)

+Research Model

+Data collection process

n  Standardized questionnaire per MOOC

n  Pre-, Post- and Follow-up-questionnaire

n  Data sharing of own data with provider, overall analysis by consortium & IPTS

+Exemplary results

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+Exemplary results

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+Exemplary results

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+Exemplary results

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+Exemplary results

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+Future

n  Primary target group: Providers of the Openuped initiative, but: n  Open for all providers

n  Requirements: n  Agreement between provider and

MOOCKnowledge consortium n  Translation

+Future

n  Benchmarking activities for providers

n  An open data-set

n  More providers! -> Join us

n  Combination with local learning analytics data

+Want to join?

n  Visit our website at IPTS: http://bit.ly/moocknowlegde

n  Contact the consortium via [email protected]

n  Talk to us today

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